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How do people choose an insulin pump that works for them?
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How do people choose an insulin pump that works for them?

Here Dr Qureshi, Consultant Endocrinologist, discusses how individuals are offered the choice to individual insulin therapy pumps that best suit the needs and expectations of the user.

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How do people create an insulin pump that works for them? So in normal procedure what will happen we have a meeting with the patient, we would have demos of the pumps in front of them, they would have different functionalities explained to them about individual pumps and And then you try to establish what they want to achieve with lung therapy. And you can make recommendations with regards to which model or which make would suit their needs the most, and they can choose between the models. Some patients needed for exercise because they're struggling having hyperglycemia during exercise. Some patients need it because they've had issues with swallowing which is essentially gastroparesis. Some patients need it because as you have rightfully said for sports, some patients need it for swimming, some patients need it because they want to be discreet. So based on patient preferences we can introduce them to all 20 of them, explain the characteristics and try to match them to the nearest pump they can get to their expectations.

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