Hypoglycemia Prevention and User Acceptance of an Insulin Pump System with Predictive Low Glucose Management.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The MiniMed 640G sensor-augmented insulin pump system (Medtronic, Inc., Northridge, CA) can automatically suspend insulin delivery in advance of predicted hypoglycemia and restart it upon recovery. The aims of this analysis were to determine the rate at which predicted hypoglycemia was avoided with this strategy, as well as to assess user acceptance of the system and its insulin management features.

Subjects and methods

Forty subjects with type 1 diabetes used the system for 4 weeks. We retrospectively evaluated performance of the system, using downloaded pump and sensor data, and evaluated user acceptance via questionnaires.

Results

There were 2,322 suspend before low events (2.1 per subject-day). The mean (± SD) duration of pump suspension events was 56.4

SUBMITTER: Choudhary P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4870649 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature