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What insulin pumps are available and how are they implanted?
Here Dr Qureshi, Consultant Endocrinologist, discusses the different types of insulin pump therapies that are available and how each is implanted and used.
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What type of insulin pumps are available and how are they implanted? So you have many forms of insulin pumps. You have them either tethered or you have non-tethered pumps. Tethered is a term essentially that if it is attached to your body. And the non-tethered would be the one which you can wear as a patch. So you can have a choice. You have multiple choices. In the UK we have up to 20, more than 20 choices. And patients choose based on what they want from the pump because they have different functionalities. So cutting the long story short, essentially there are two forms that you can use, either tethered or non-tethered. With the tethered one, you can connect it with a cannula, which is attached as a tube. And the cannula goes into the skin and the pump is attached, the cartridge is attached through through the tubing to the cannula and the cannula would deliver the insulin. The patch pump, there is a device with the net that when you apply the patch it delivers insulin through a needle which is part of the patch which can deliver it and it sits onto your arm or leg wherever you want to wear one, wherever you choose to wear one.
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