An Integrated Intelligent Insulin Pump

As an evangel to diabetics, the invention of insulin pump has drastically renovated the ways of treatment for diabetes. Having been developing since 1970s, insulin pump is an advanced product now. However, the insulin pump in the market is still far from being satisfactory, as pains were caused to patients out of the injection and finger blood extraction. Even worse, if insulin is over injected, the patient can have low blood sugar level that could be life threatening to the patient. And the treatment is expensive to the patients and it is estimated to be 10 RMB/hour due to the high cost of the current insulin systems. It is desirable for regular patients to be provided with a closed-loop, low cost glucose-insulin pump diabetes treatment system, which is not yet available in the market. This closed-loop system will make the glucose measurement and insulin pumping be conducted continuously so that a complete diabetic management can be realized. A novel intelligent insulin pump with painless and automatic injection coupled with the glucose metering was introduced in the present study