Open AccessWho needs an artificial pancreas? (怎样的患者需要一个人工胰腺？)
Author(s) -
Winikoff Janet,
Drexler Andrew
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of diabetes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.949
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1753-0407
pISSN - 1753-0393
DOI - 10.1111/1753-0407.12052
Subject(s) - artificial pancreas , medicine , glycemic , pancreas , blood sugar , diabetes mellitus , closed loop , intensive care medicine , endocrinology , surgery , type 1 diabetes , control engineering , engineering
The development of a closed‐loop “artificial pancreas” would be a welcome advance for both endocrinologists and diabetic patients struggling to attain near normal glycemic control. While great strides in automatically controlling blood sugar in the fasting, sedentary state have been made through complex mathematical modeling, management of blood sugar excursions due to food and exercise have been more problematic. An artificial pancreas is not feasible at this time because of limitations inherent in the currently available technology.