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Dutch 'Artificial pancreas'

Antje77

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I've just watched a Dutch tv show featuring a guy who's built an 'artificial pancreas' and has been using it for a year. It seems they're pretty far in getting the thing approved too, and it has been tried by an endocrinologist who is T1 and other people.
As far as I understand it looks like an insulin pump with 2 tubes and uses a glucose sensor and not only insulin but glucagon as well.
The builder doesn't even take dextro with him anymore when running!

I wanted to include a couple of interesting links, but my stupid computer comes up with mostly Dutch results, even when using English search terms, so I think it'll work better to do your own search from a computer that isn't based in the Netherlands if you're interested.

The man's name is Robin Koops.
 
Gosh, talk about 'We can rebuild him'! Fascinating.
 
It’s Nov 2019
 
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