Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
I just came across this article, posted in September 2019. I'm not sure if it is available in the UK, I hadn't heard of it.
Who’s got your back? Who have you trained on your emergency Glucagon kit? When you – or the person with Type 1 diabetes in your life – has a severe hypo, who do you trust to act?
After I was taught the Glucagon kit process – first to inject the liquid into the vial of powder, then to remove the syringe, swirl the vial, draw the liquid back into the syringe, and finally inject– I had to consider who to share this lesson with. The learning curve is not insignificant. Was my child old enough to brandish a needle? Was this family member too old, that one too scatterbrained? Who could be trusted to follow these precise steps in a moment of crisis?
Robert Oringer has weighed these sorts of questions extensively. Oringer, the Chairman of Locemia Solutions, had the burning desire for years to innovate glucagon. In 2010, he recruited co-founder and CEO, Claude Piche, to build and lead their small but mighty team to develop Baqsimi, Eli Lilly’s new nasal glucagon treatment that was recently approved by the FDA. Oringer has been fighting hypoglycemia for decades now: he first came to public notice as the creator of Dex4 glucose tabs. He thinks a lot about the emotional impact of hypoglycemia risk, and not just from the perspective of a businessman. He has two sons with Type 1 diabetes.
“The stars aligned for me to understand the screaming need for a better rescue solution … at some point I just said, somebody’s gotta do something here!”
Baqsimi was the solution. This new glucagon rescue is administered nasally: a single puff in the nose is enough to deliver a full dose, even to a completely unresponsive patient. Compared to the old Glucagon kits, Baqsimi nasal glucagon is equally effective and dramatically easier to use. Remove the cap, one puff, done. The kit you have stashed in your closet or in an emergency bag today is about to become obsolete.
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Who’s got your back? Who have you trained on your emergency Glucagon kit? When you – or the person with Type 1 diabetes in your life – has a severe hypo, who do you trust to act?
After I was taught the Glucagon kit process – first to inject the liquid into the vial of powder, then to remove the syringe, swirl the vial, draw the liquid back into the syringe, and finally inject– I had to consider who to share this lesson with. The learning curve is not insignificant. Was my child old enough to brandish a needle? Was this family member too old, that one too scatterbrained? Who could be trusted to follow these precise steps in a moment of crisis?
Robert Oringer has weighed these sorts of questions extensively. Oringer, the Chairman of Locemia Solutions, had the burning desire for years to innovate glucagon. In 2010, he recruited co-founder and CEO, Claude Piche, to build and lead their small but mighty team to develop Baqsimi, Eli Lilly’s new nasal glucagon treatment that was recently approved by the FDA. Oringer has been fighting hypoglycemia for decades now: he first came to public notice as the creator of Dex4 glucose tabs. He thinks a lot about the emotional impact of hypoglycemia risk, and not just from the perspective of a businessman. He has two sons with Type 1 diabetes.
“The stars aligned for me to understand the screaming need for a better rescue solution … at some point I just said, somebody’s gotta do something here!”
Baqsimi was the solution. This new glucagon rescue is administered nasally: a single puff in the nose is enough to deliver a full dose, even to a completely unresponsive patient. Compared to the old Glucagon kits, Baqsimi nasal glucagon is equally effective and dramatically easier to use. Remove the cap, one puff, done. The kit you have stashed in your closet or in an emergency bag today is about to become obsolete.
Baqsimi Will Make Your Glucagon Kit Obsolete
Compared to the old glucagon kits, Baqsimi nasal glucagon is equally effective and dramatically easier to use. Remove the cap, one puff, done.
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