Method for controlling insulin pump using Bluetooth protocol

• US 20050261660A1
• Filed: 05/24/2004
• Published: 11/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Soo Bong Choi
• Original Assignee: Soo Bong Choi
• Inventors: Choi, Soo Bong
• Application Number:
  US10/852,483
• Publication Number:
  US 20050261660A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 604/504
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3561 local, e.g. within room or hospital
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3584 using modem, internet or bluetooth
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/201 Glucose concentration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1452 pressurised by means of pistons
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1723 using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood-sugar, pressure measurement of body parameters A61B5/00

Abstract

A method for controlling an insulin pump using the Bluetooth protocol. The method comprises allocating IDs to insulin pumps and blood sugar level measuring devices, respectively; checking, in a corresponding insulin pump, whether or not blood sugar level data is inputted from a blood sugar level measuring device having a corresponding ID; cumulating inputted data and judging whether or not abnormality occurs; generating a command to allow the insulin pump to operate as it is, when abnormality did not occur; generating a command to change an insulin injection amount of the insulin pump when abnormality occurred, and then, returning to the third step; and determining a system to be out of order when data is not inputted in the checking step, and generating an alarm so that a qualified person can visit a corresponding patient to have a trouble to be directly addressed.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an insulin pump using the Bluetooth protocol, comprising the steps of:

preparing insulin pumps and blood sugar level measuring devices in which Bluetooth chips are built in, respectively, a Bluetooth communication device which is separate from the Bluetooth chips and has a transmitting/receiving unit and a communication control unit, and a computer which comprises a CPU having built therein a Bluetooth chip adapted to transmit and receive a signal to and from the Bluetooth communication device, a monitor and a keyboard;

allocating IDs to insulin pumps and blood sugar level measuring devices, respectively;

checking, in a corresponding insulin pump, whether or not blood sugar level data is inputted from a blood sugar level measuring device having a corresponding ID;

cumulating inputted data and judging whether or not abnormality occurs;

generating a command to allow the insulin pump to operate as it is, when abnormality did not occur;

generating a command to change an insulin injection amount of the insulin pump when abnormality occurred, and then, returning to the third step; and

determining a system to be out of order when data is not inputted in the checking step, and generating an alarm so that a qualified person can visit a corresponding patient to have a trouble to be directly addressed;

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, when the insulin pump to which the blood sugar level data is inputted in the checking step is established as a server, after the checking step, the method comprising the steps of:

accumulating separately blood sugar level data measured in the respective blood sugar level measuring devices, and judging whether or not abnormality occurs;

generating a command to change an insulin injection amount of a corresponding insulin pump when abnormality occurred; and

returning to the checking step when abnormality did not occur.

3. A method for controlling an insulin pump using the Bluetooth protocol, comprising the steps of:

preparing insulin pumps and corresponding blood sugar level measuring devices in which Bluetooth chips are built in, respectively, to allow intercommunication between the insulin pumps and the corresponding blood sugar level measuring devices, a Bluetooth communication device which has a central controlling function, and a computer which comprises a CPU having built therein a Bluetooth chip and communicates with the Bluetooth communication device to transmit and receive data;

generating a command to initially conduct a basic set mode;

checking whether or not blood sugar level data is inputted from a corresponding blood sugar level measuring device;

generating a command to drive a corresponding insulin pump to thereby inject an amount of insulin which is appropriate to the inputted blood sugar level data when the blood sugar level data is inputted from the corresponding blood sugar level measuring device;

judging whether or not a doctor mode is required;

generating a command to first drive the corresponding insulin pump in the doctor mode when the doctor mode is required; and

returning to the command generating step to initially conduct the basic set mode, when the doctor mode is completed.