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System for Optimizing a Patient's Insulin Dosage Regimen

  • US 20120022353A1
  • Filed: 10/03/2011
  • Published: 01/26/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for updating a patient'"'"'s insulin dosage regimen, the method comprising:

  • storing one or more components of the patient'"'"'s insulin dosage regimen;

    obtaining data corresponding to the patient'"'"'s blood glucose-level measurements determined at a plurality of times;

    incrementing a timer based on at least one of the passage of a predetermined amount of time and the receipt of each blood glucose-level measurement;

    tagging each of the blood glucose-level measurements with an identifier reflective of when the measurement was obtained;

    determining for each of the obtained blood glucose-level measurements whether the measurement reflects a hypoglycemic event or a severe hypoglycemic event;

    reducing at least one of the one or more components in the patient'"'"'s insulin dosage regimen in response to a determination that the most recent blood glucose-level measurement represents a severe hypoglycemic event;

    reducing at least one of the one or more components in the patient'"'"'s insulin dosage regimen in response to a determination that there have been an excessive number of hypoglycemic events over a predefined period of time; and

    determining from a plurality of the data corresponding to the patient'"'"'s blood glucose-level measurements whether and by how much to vary at least one of the one or more components in the patient'"'"'s present insulin dosage regimen in order to maintain the patient'"'"'s blood glucose-level measurements within a predefined range;

    wherein the timer indicates when to perform the step of determining from a plurality of the data corresponding to the patient'"'"'s blood glucose-level measurements whether and by how much to vary at least one of the one or more components in the patient'"'"'s present insulin dosage regimen and the timer is reset at the end of the predefined period of time or earlier if there have been an excessive number of hypoglycemic events and one or more components in the patient'"'"'s insulin dosage regimen has been varied.

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