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Website
Remedy Health Media

Health Central: Heart Attack

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information about a heart attack: definition, care, and treatment of a heart attack. Discusses various treatments: cardiac catheterization, angioplasty and bypass surgery.
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Activity
WebMD

Medicine Net: Heart Attack

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from MedicineNet.com provides great information on a myocardial infarction, otherwise known as a heart attack. Includes a definition and description, along with information on causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment options
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers:scientific American: Affairs of the Heart: Exploring Vessel Physics

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Explore the relationship between pressure and vessel diameter and create a model that represents how elevated blood pressure may affect weakened vessels. Design and critique a repair device.
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Handout
US National Library of Medicine

Medline Plus: Heart Bypass Surgery

For Students 9th - 10th
From MedlinePlus, a video tutorial featuring information on heart bypass surgery with accompanying text.
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Handout
University of Washington

University of Washington: After Your Heart Attack

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers information on how to recognize and prevent a heart attack.
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Activity
Other

Heart Point: Bypass Surgery

For Students 9th - 10th
An animation of what surgeons do during bypass surgery.
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Interactive
Inner Body

Innerbody

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the human body like never before. Resource presents hundreds of interactive anatomy pictures and descriptions of thousands of objects in the body.
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Handout
Texas Heart Institute

Texas Heart Institute: Heart Information Center: Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

For Students 9th - 10th
The article answers questions about coronary artery bypass surgery.
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Interactive
American Heart Association

American Heart Association: Heart Attack

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents brief information defining a heart attack. The article also contains many links to related topics and publications in English and Spanish.