jopar
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As to why insulin ends up on the piston rod, is more to do with the user than the manufacturer to be honest, when we expell the air out of the cartridge when we are filling it, a mixture of air and insulin comes out, and this tends to run down the side and who wripes there cartridge off before putting it into the pump chamber? I tend not to I must admit..
The cost to the NHS service is not really here or there when it comes to lost insulin due to priming and wouldn't amount to a lot over a year...
I would agree that changing sets due to failure has a bigger impact on overall costs, I've been pretty lucky on this score and not had that many sets fail but I'm sure this is because I self insert as this avoid kinking the cannular hitting muscle underneath, as so far I haven't had a set fail to kinking...
Oncclusions are probably my biggest concerns, due to having to have missed 3 units of insulin before enough presure is on the pistion rod to trigger the pump alarm as this for me can mean I haven't recieved any basal for over 6 hours :shock: But thankfully the couple of times I've had this I've picked up on a bolus so avoided problems so far...
At the moment it's probably beyond any manafucturer due to not only available techonology but sheer cost if technology if it was available to implement us earlier warnings of a failed infusion set or non delivery, I should imagine that all the verious manufacturers are working with this, as they know who ever comes up with a cost effective method of doing so launches themselves into the king pin position of insulin pumps..
Perhaps the differnce to how I view these problems with insulin pumps (as it's common to all manufacturers and not just Rouche) is that I had to fight a 3 year battle to get my pump, and you were lucky enough to have yours offered without fuss as soon as it was indentified you were a suitable candidate for one! Due to my battle I was aware of these niggles, you wouldn't really have had the time to do similar background research, so had a slightly clouded misguide perspective?
And I don't mean that in any insultive way, just an explination to why our views are so different
The cost to the NHS service is not really here or there when it comes to lost insulin due to priming and wouldn't amount to a lot over a year...
I would agree that changing sets due to failure has a bigger impact on overall costs, I've been pretty lucky on this score and not had that many sets fail but I'm sure this is because I self insert as this avoid kinking the cannular hitting muscle underneath, as so far I haven't had a set fail to kinking...
Oncclusions are probably my biggest concerns, due to having to have missed 3 units of insulin before enough presure is on the pistion rod to trigger the pump alarm as this for me can mean I haven't recieved any basal for over 6 hours :shock: But thankfully the couple of times I've had this I've picked up on a bolus so avoided problems so far...
At the moment it's probably beyond any manafucturer due to not only available techonology but sheer cost if technology if it was available to implement us earlier warnings of a failed infusion set or non delivery, I should imagine that all the verious manufacturers are working with this, as they know who ever comes up with a cost effective method of doing so launches themselves into the king pin position of insulin pumps..
Perhaps the differnce to how I view these problems with insulin pumps (as it's common to all manufacturers and not just Rouche) is that I had to fight a 3 year battle to get my pump, and you were lucky enough to have yours offered without fuss as soon as it was indentified you were a suitable candidate for one! Due to my battle I was aware of these niggles, you wouldn't really have had the time to do similar background research, so had a slightly clouded misguide perspective?
And I don't mean that in any insultive way, just an explination to why our views are so different