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 This
new permanent exhibit showcases the amazing miracle of the
human body features four zones: Powerful Pulse, Powerful
Team, Powerful You, and The
Cutting Edge.
Through the use of fun interactive exhibits and amazing images, children
and adults alike will learn about the importance of health, the human body
and the
technology used by health professionals to keep you healthy. Powerful You!
is presented by Broward Health.
Powerful You
The human body is a wonderfully complex mechanism that
is built to be active. Powerful You features interactive
exhibits that will test your strength, brain
function and overall body performance.
Discover how your body continually
changes throughout your lifetime, what measures you can
take to prevent or reduce the
risk of injury while being active and how modern medical science and technology
can rehabilitate and maintain the body after an injury.
Powerful Pulse
The heart is the most important muscle in the body and it must be exercised and taken care of to ensure proper function.
Powerful Pulse explores heart
anatomy
and function, different types of heart procedures, heart health and nutrition,
and heart disease and prevention.
Learn the anatomy of the heart, ways
to prevent and treat heart disease, how your diet impacts heart health
and how the heart’s
main operating systems function.
Powerful Team
Powerful Team highlights the entire team of medical experts needed to maintain
a healthy body and provide care in the event of a medical emergency.
Take
a test drive in the DUI simulator, learn the timeline of the “golden hour” and
trauma care, recognize emergency conditions, tour an ambulance and discover
different types of career opportunities in the health care system.
 The Cutting Edge
As science and technology continually develop new tools and solutions for
the benefit of human health, hospitals need to remain up to date as they
utilize
some of the most innovative equipment and technology in the medical field.
The Cutting Edge explores the medical technology featured at Broward Health,
medical
imaging, cancer and treatment, physical therapy and prosthetics.
Find out
how robotic surgery is being used, become familiar with the CyberKnife
and get the
facts about the 128 Slice CT Scanner.
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