Hospital Helpers Body Lab and Teddy Clinic guide

The Body Lab and the Teddy Clinic are two extra places in Hospital Helpers that are always open from the home screen. In the Body Lab you build a body with Sanna the surgeon and learn what each organ does, in three short lessons. In the Teddy Clinic you practise on a soft toy. Neither gives badges, so you can play them as often as you like. The Body Lab also has eight curiosity cards to find.

The Body Lab: learn the organs with Bodo

Press Body Lab · Look inside Bodo on the home screen. You are in the surgeon's study. Sanna says: "Welcome to my study! This is Bodo, my practice model." Bodo is a model, not a patient, so you can take him apart as often as you like. The organs are drawn in their real shapes, with soft shading, like in a children's anatomy book. The heart has its red and blue vessels and the lungs have lobes. There is no blood.

The Body Lab has 11 steps:

1. Put the brain, the lungs and the heart into Bodo. Drag the Brain, the Left lung, the Right lung and the Heart to their outlines. Each lung waits on its own side of Bodo.
2. Touch each part to see what it does. Move the ring over each organ and read its line.
3. Now the tummy parts. No outlines! Where do they go? Put the Liver, the Stomach, the Left kidney, the Right kidney and the Gut where you think they go. No outlines show the places this time. Press Hint and the outlines come back. Each kidney waits on its own side of Bodo.
4. Touch each tummy part to see what it does.
5. Bodo ran up the stairs. Which part thumps faster now? The answer is Heart.
6. A heart flap is loose. Turn it and click it in. Press Turn left or Turn right, then put it in place. Sanna explains that flaps are little doors that keep blood going one way.
7. Bodo swallowed a marble! Find it with the tiny camera. The marble is hidden. Search with the ring until you find it.
8. Bodo's tummy rumbles before lunch. Which part is empty? The answer is Stomach.

At the end Sanna says: "Well done! Now you know what I see at work."

What each organ does

These are the lines the Body Lab shows when you touch each organ:

Every line you find stays on screen, with the newest one in bold, so you can read them all again.

Body Lab quiz answers

A wrong answer is never a problem. Just pick again.

The second lesson: follow the food

Press Body Lab · Follow the food on the home screen. Sanna says: "Bodo ate an apple. Let us follow it!" This lesson has 8 steps:

1. Build the food's way into Bodo. No outlines this time! Drag the Food pipe, the Stomach and the Gut to where they go. No outlines show the places until you press Hint. The chest parts are already there, shown faintly.
2. Touch each stop on the apple's trip. The stops are shown. Touch each one to read what it does.
3. Put the apple's trip in order. There are four picture cards, and each one shows the part: Mouth, Food pipe, Stomach, Gut.
4. Sanna tells you: "Your gut is about seven metres long. All folded up!"
5. Bodo breathes in. Where does the air go? The answer is Lungs.
6. Bodo drank water. Which parts make the pee? The answer is Kidneys.

At the end Sanna says: "From mouth to toilet takes about a day. Good trip, apple!" Then the game says: "Now you know where your food goes!"

Follow the food quiz answers

The third lesson: follow the air

Press Body Lab · Follow the air on the home screen. Sanna says: "Take a big breath. Let us follow the air!" This lesson has 9 steps:

1. Build the way the air takes. No outlines to help! Drag the Windpipe, the Left lung, the Right lung and the Breathing muscle to where they go. No outlines show the places until you press Hint.
2. Touch each part of the air's way. The parts are shown. Touch each one to read what it does.
3. Put the air's trip in order. There are four picture cards: Nose, Windpipe, Lungs, Blood.
4. Sanna tells you: "Spread out flat, your lungs would cover half a tennis court!"
5. Bodo breathes in. Which part pulls the air down? The answer is Breathing muscle.
6. Bodo sprints. Why does he breathe faster? The answer is His muscles need more oxygen.
7. What do the lungs hand over to the blood? The answer is Oxygen from the air.

At the end Sanna says: "In and out, about twenty thousand times a day. Well breathed!" Then the game says: "Now you know how you breathe!"

Follow the air quiz answers

The Teddy Clinic: practise on a soft toy

Press Teddy Clinic · Help Teddy on the home screen. A child in the playroom says: "Teddy has a sore paw. Can you help him?" The Teddy Clinic is short, with 5 steps:

1. Listen to Teddy's tummy. Find the squeaker. Search with the ring.
2. X-ray Teddy. Find the two hidden buttons. Search with the ring again.
3. Wrap a bandage around the paw. Move over the paw until it is wrapped.

Then the child says: "Teddy says thank you. He feels brave now!" The Teddy Clinic is a good first try before your first real patient, or a short game for a younger brother or sister. The game's own words for it: "Practise on a soft toy. Nothing can go wrong."

Organs in the stories

You also meet organs in the patient stories: the heart under the stethoscope, the tummy organs when you search for a sore spot, the inside view with the tiny camera in Ines's story, and an X-ray of the chest and tummy where you find Leo's swallowed coin. See Shifts 2 to 5.

See also

• Jobs and tools: how dragging, turning and searching work.
• Controls: every button.
• Your first shift, step by step: your first real patients.
• For grown-ups: how the organs are shown.
• Play Hospital Helpers.

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