2.1.5 Telemedicine

Telehealth

PBS 2.1.5

Healthcare on the Go

• Review your schedule on PLTW
• Cass (16 yo female) is here with her parents

• Watch video together (healthcare on the go)

Telehealth

• Telehealth = “healing at a distance”

Go to PLTW 2.1.5 > Health Care on the Go

• Interact with flashcards in step 1

• On your whiteboard, answer > Who might benefit from telehealth?

Food is Fuel

• Cass was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes @ 14 yo

• She’s traveling out of the country & wants to discuss managing her blood glucose while she’s traveling.

• Due to her diabetes, Cass needs to carefully monitor what she eats

Food is Fuel

• Our bodies need fuel to function
• We receive energy from biomolecules that we consume from the food we eat.
• What are the 4 biomolecules (AKA macromolecules)?

Food is Fuel

• These biomolecules must be further broken down by our cells to create ATP (this process is known as cellular respiration)

• In order for this to happen, we must deliver the biomolecules to our cells.
• We will focus on how we deliver glucose to our cells
• Glucose Metabolism

Food is Fuel

• Our body prefers to make ATP from carbohydrates.

• As carbs are broken down in our digestive tract, glucose is released into the bloodstream.

• Now, this glucose needs to be transported out of the blood and into our cells!

• Pancreas produces insulin

It’s Your Turn!

• Go to PLTW 2.1.5 > Food Is Fuel > Open up the animation in step 3

• Interact with the animation to learn how cells take in glucose from the bloodstream.
• Take notes on this process and pay special attention to the role of insulin in this process
• Complete the tasks under "laboratory notebook" beneath the animation and take the Glucose-Insulin Connection Quiz to test your understanding.

Diabetes Dilemma

• What is diabetes?

• Difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes

Your Turn

• Go to PLTW 2.1.5 > Diabetes Dilemma
• Complete step 4 - Describe what occurs in the body of a type 1 diabetic after they consume a carbohydrate heavy meal. Include the following terms:
• metabolized
• glucose
• insulin
• cell receptors
• pancreas
• energy

Controlling Diabetes

• Monitoring & regulating blood glucose is important in maintaining your health.
• In people without diabetes, the body does this for you
• In people with diabetes, you must both monitor and regulate your blood glucose on your own

• Regulating homeostasis - positive v. negative feedback

Negative Feedback

• A stimulus causes homeostasis imbalance

• Body responds to reduce the effects of the stimulus to get back into homeostasis

Goal: Reverse the Change

Postive Feedback

• A stimulus causes homeostasis imbalance

• The body's response promotes the original stimulus

Goal: Amplify the Change

Controlling Diabetes

Create a feedback loop of how the body regulates blood glucose (non-diabetic). Use the info below to help. Blood glucose must be tightly controlled (via negative feedback). The pancreas detects changes to blood glucose.

• If it’s too high, the pancreas secretes ___________________
• What does this hormone do?

• If it’s too low, the pancreas secretes ___________________
• What does this hormone do?

A Day in Cass’s Life

• Open PLTW 2.1.5 > “A Day in Cass’s Life”
• Read through her diary entry #1
• Take notes on blood glucose target ranges for diabetics and non-diabetics
• Define remote patient monitoring
• Describe how a continuous glucose monitor works and how it could help Cass
• Read her diary entry #2
• Answer the reflection question beneath diary entry #2

• Review Cass’s blood glucose readings (step 6) & answer questions below
• Answer step 7 questions
• Answer conclusion questions

Class Discussion

Class Discussion

As a class, review Cass's glucometer data (step 6)

Class Discussion

As a class, review Cass's glucometer data (step 6)

Class Discussion

As a class, review Cass's glucometer data (step 6)

Class Discussion

As a class, review Cass's glucometer data (step 6)

Class Discussion

As a class, review Cass's glucometer data (step 6)