What is an insulin pump?

So insulin pump is a device which is a automated device which has a vial of insulin within it. It can give you insulin continuously over 24 hours. When you use injectable insulin with pens you cannot control the hour to hour variability between how much insulin that you would need. With an insulin pumps, we can calibrate the amount of insulin that you need every hour of the day and it can be varied between different activities. It can be varied based on your day-to-day activities and we can reduce the amount of insulin that you would need overnight. The new insulin pumps which have come into the market like Medtronic 670G would also have calibrations as part of integrated sensors which can modify the amount of insulin that you would need and actually make it much more physiological. So insulin pump essentially is a device which makes your oral control much better in case you're suffering with low blood sugars when you're having insulin pens as part of your treatment.