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Updates on new insulin pump therapies available.
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Updates on new insulin pump therapies available.

Here Dr Qureshi, Consultant Endocrinologist, discusses the new innovations in insulin pump technology that are and are becoming available to individuals with diabetes.

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What kind of updates can you give us on the new pump therapies available? The new pumps are becoming hybrid loops and there is a drive from NHS England to link continuous glucose monitoring devices with the pump, which essentially means that you can run an algorithm between the insulin pump and it will automatically shut it off for 45 minutes if it predicts that your blood sugar is going to be low. can give you a bonus on its own if you can set up a limit, which is like 10, and if your limit is high, so we give you a bit more insulin. So essentially the pump is working in your background to stop you having hypers and also give you insulin. And actually the closest thing to work is artificial pancreas, right? The most sophisticated model currently as an app, you mentioned about using with an app, are some insulin pumps which are being used as an app. I mentioned Omnipod, but I mentioned another one. It's called an APS app. It's developed by Profioka at Attenborough in Cambridge. It's one of the best models or physiologically more appropriate models. It's an APS app for Android, which you can download onto an Android phone. And it works with one of the UPSI pumps, I think is one of the one models it works with. And it is based on the data we've seen so far, because it because it was just launched a couple of years ago, is that it's the most physiological therapy that you can get because it links you with an app which has a mathematical modeling built within to that, and it optimizes your control under a certain range. So it's all very promising, and we're hoping the loop becomes closed and eventually it would become a full artificial pancreas.

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