AID Automated Insulin Delivery: A Step in the Right Direction

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Amity Island

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While AID systems can compensate for modest glucose excursions without the user’s involvement, they are next to helpless at handling anything that causes a dramatic rise or fall in glucose levels. Users need to have a solid foundation in carbohydrate estimation as well as general nutrition principles – including the time component of digestion and insulin administration.


A podcast below.

 
Some members here are already using AAPS hybrid closed loops 🙂

AID isn’t an acronym I see being used a lot interestingly enough. Is it a new one trying to gather several things under one term?
 
I think this sort of sensor-augmented pump technology is going to get a lot higher profile over the next few years.
 
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