Tiger_Lily wrote:
> Hondos2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
>>> The"artifial pancreas" contains an insulin pump, AND a glucose sensor
>>> AND a microcomputer.
>
>>> Until we can invent a device that will MAKE the insulin itself
>>> (instead of having to be refilled every day), this is as close as we
>>> can get to "artificial pancreas"
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>> Does anyone know the name of this type of pump or who makes it? My
>> child was diagnosed with type 1 six weeks ago. I'd love to have this
>> for him.
>
> there is NO viable 'artifical pancreas' as such, in existance today
>
> there has been much talk of this happening, in the last 9 or 10 years or
> more, but nothing has come of it
Try 40 years, minimum. The basic mechanical technologies were solved at
least
25 years ago to my knowledge, the sensor is the problem. With good
sensors,
you don't need fancy computers. It's a simple damped feedback loop like
physics and engineering students have been tuning since the invention of
feedback loops.
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