Pitfalls of Insulin Pump Clocks

Insulin Pump Software Certification

The insulin pump is a safety-critical embedded medical device used for treatment of type 1 and insulin treated type 2 diabetes. Malfunction of the insulin pump will endanger the user’s life. All countries impose some regulation on the sale and use of medical devices. The purpose of such regulation is to protect the public by imposing standards of safety for medical devices, including insulin pu...

Insulin Pump Class: Back to the Basics of Pump Therapy.

Deep dip teardown of tubeless insulin pump

This paper introduces a deep level teardown process of a personal medical device – the OmniPod® wireless tubeless insulin pump. This starts with mechanical teardown exposing the engineering solutions used inside the device. Then the electronic part of the device is analysed followed by components identification. Finally, the firmware extraction is performed allowing further analysis of the firm...

Modeling Impulsive Insulin Delivery in Insulin Pump with Time Delays

We continue our attempt of modeling the open-loop control of glucose level by impulsive insulin injections. Several time delays exist in the system. The delays include the time needed for insulin from injection depot to transport to the interstitial compartment, the time for the slow inhibition of the hepatic glucose production (HGP), and the time for insulin secretion caused by the elevated gl...

Insulin pump use in type 2 diabetes.

Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a promising therapy, but the clinical evidence supporting it is mixed. Large randomized controlled trials have concluded that CSII was equivalent to multiple daily injections (MDI), whereas smaller trials have concluded that CSII was superior. Simpler insulin regimens of CSII have been investigated for T2DM a...