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System for demand-based adminstration of insulin

  • US 4,403,984 A
  • Filed: 12/22/1980
  • Issued: 09/13/1983
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/28/1979
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. The method for delivering insulin to a patient which comprisesimplanting into said patient, and in contact with a body fluid of said patient, a transducer means responsive to a physical property of said body fluid and generating an output signal which is a function of said physical property;

  • providing said patient with an insulin dispenser means adapted to deliver insulin transcutaneously to said patient;

    providing a dispenser control means operably associated with said dispenser means so as to regulate delivery of insulin to said patient in response to a control signal; and

    applying the output signal generated by said transducer means to said dispensing control means as said control signal.

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