Your Insulin Pump Proposals: What You Want the Manufacturers to Change
Over at Diabetes Health, they've run a survey to gather views on what needs to be improved in insulin pump design. I don't know whether any readers of this site took part, but I was wondering whether there are any changes that would make life better in the mountains. How about a remote control pad with extra large glove-proof buttons? Any other ideas?
Here's the summary and link to the Diabetes Health article:
Your Insulin Pump Proposals: What You Want the Manufacturers to Change - To conclude our pump survey, we asked you how you'd like to see pumping improved. As usual, you came up with a plethora of intriguing suggestions, although some were a bit more visionary than others: One reader said, "I wish someone would invent a device that could be waved over a meal, and it would display the number of carbs in the meal." [Type 1 News on Diabetes Health]
Hmm. Not sure I'd want a remote pad which I'm sure I'd drop into the snow or nearest crevasse....Unless, there was some kind of wrist/watch simplified veiwing/operating "remote".
A wristop would be ideal for a CGMS viewer. In fact, this would be a potential niche...How/where to display the results of your CGMS --- handle bar, wrist top, etc. It would be an amazing tool for me, on the bike! For the mountains, hard for me to think of the ideal way to view/use ANY diabetes-related equipment!
I'd like to actually HEAR the pump (under the various cold weather layers) when I'm doing an audio bolus. That's my biggest issue when I'm out in the cold bolusing away, unless I drain batteries with the vibrate mode....
Just some random musings, as usual!
Ciao for now, Andy et al.
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