Development of a Low-Cost Insulin Infusion Pump: Lessons Learned from an Industry Case

Author

Martins, Luiz Eduardo G. ; De Faria, Hanniere ; Vecchete, Lucas ; Cunha, Tatiana ; De Oliveira, Tiago ; Casarini, Dulce E. ; Almada Colucci, Juliana

Author_Institution

Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Fed. Univ. of Sao Paulo, São José dos Campos, Brazil

fYear

2015

fDate

22-25 June 2015

Firstpage

338

Lastpage

343

Abstract

In the last 30 years there have been great advances in technology for diabetes treatment, which facilitated the management of the disease and its complications. Among the advances we can mention the development of insulin infusion pump. However, diabetes treatment using the insulin pump still remains expansive in Brazil, especially because the device and its accessories are imported. The aim of this paper is to report a prototype development of a low-cost insulin infusion pump aimed to benefit Brazilian people suffering with Diabetes Mellitus type 1. The prototype development is a result from a cooperation between Brazilian academy and industry. We comment the development of such a prototype and the lessons learned obtained from it.

Keywords

biomedical equipment; diseases; patient treatment; pumps; diabetes mellitus type I; diabetes treatment; disease management; low-cost insulin infusion pump; prototype development; Batteries; Diabetes; Hardware; Industries; Insulin; Prototypes; Reservoirs; diabetes mellitus; embedded systems; insulin infusion pump; safety requirements;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS), 2015 IEEE 28th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sao Carlos

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CBMS.2015.14

Filename

7167512