Closed-Loop Control of Blood Glucose / Edition 1

by Frederick Chee, Tyrone Fernando

Overview

Diabetes is a disease that is now regarded an epidemic in the world and a sign- icant effort is directed towards finding better ways to manage diabetes. Keeping blood glucose levels as close to normal as possible, leads to a substantial decrease in long term complications of diabetes and can bring significant cost reductions associated with the disease. Traditionally, managing diabetes has been through intermittent monitoring of blood glucose and then administering an appropriate dose of insulin into the blood stream. This method of intermittent monitoring and administration of insulin cannot ensure blood glucose remains at near n- mal levels at all times and therefore, there is considerable interest in managing diabetes on a continuous basis. The development of artificial organs/apparatus that regulate human’s blood glucose level has been in progress since 1960. The aim was to measure blood glucose level ex vivo and then injecting an appropriate amount of insulin to the hyperglycaemic patient, thereby correcting the high glucose level. This aim of closing the “loop” is still being challenged by technological barriers even today, and progress are being made constantly both in overcoming the challenges and understanding more about the workings of glucose-regulatory system. The purpose of this book is to introduce the field of closed-loop blood g- cose control, in a simple manner, to the reader. This includes the hardware and software components that make up the control system (see Chapter 2). The hardware components involved the different types of glucose sensor (- vasive, minimally-invasive and non-invasive) and the different types of insulin.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783540740308
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	10/24/2007
Series:	Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences , #368
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	157
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.01(d)

Table of Contents

Glucose Control: Input and Output.- Glucose Control: Patient Dynamics.- Mathematics of Glucose Control.- Closed-Loop Control Apparatus Example.- Conclusions.