Insulin Pumo- Diabetes

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Diabetes is a disease in which a person suffers high blood sugar. They suffer from high blood sugar because their pancreas does not produce enough insulin to balance their blood sugar levels, or their cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. Type 1 diabetes, or juvenile diabetes, is when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin. The pancreas does not produce enough insulin because one’s body destroys the beta-cell in the pancreas (Hatziavramidis, 2013). Type 2 diabetes is when cells do not respond to the insulin that is produced. Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes. Eight percent of America’s population has diabetes. In that eight percent, 5 percent has type 1 diabetes (Lehard, 2001). There is no cure for diabetes. The two main treatments for type 1 and type 2 diabetes are multiple daily injections of insulin, or insulin pumps. However there are advantages and disadvantages for both treatments. Treatments physically and socially affect the patient who has diabetes. “The task of managing the disease—ie, striving to maintain a near-normal blood-sugar concentration to reduce the threat of long-term complications while avoiding the short-term disaster of disabling hypoglycaemia—is hard enough, but it is one that must be tackled while the patient is also trying to live a more or less normal life” (Jeffocate, 2006, 795). Current research for diabetes is focusing on efficiency and patient satisfaction. The overall goal for insulin delivery is to have a tool that acts like an artificial pancreas and does not significantly affects daily life.
Insulin pumps were developed in the 1960s by Arnold Kadish (Alsaleh, 2010). They were very large and inefficient, so they were not widely used until the 1990s. Moder...

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