Personalized insulin doses

2003/02/05 Andonegi Beristain, Garazi - Elhuyar Zientziaren Komunikazioa

• Medikuntza

Currently, the doses of insulin given to diabetics arriving at emergency services depend on the experience of the doctor. That is, a single patient can receive a different and different dose according to the doctor.

In view of this, the doctor of the Public University of Navarra, Tomás Rubio, has developed in his doctoral thesis a mathematical model to know the dose of insulin that the patient needs at all times.

Therefore, the doctor has proposed a model based on blood extractions. In fact, by exits at two different times it is possible to measure blood glucose and insulin and know the exact dose of insulin that the patient needs. However, keep in mind that when the patient suffers a new crisis, the calculations must be done again.

The mathematical model can be used not only in emergency services, but also in the home. For example, it can be used in insulin perfusion pumps that calculate the dose of insulin based on glucose. It can also be useful during the intervention, since you can calculate the dose of insulin to be given during the intervention and control glucose with serum.

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