Development of Smart Insulin Infusion Set

Medtronic MiniMed Engineering, 2003-04

Liaison(s): Mark Holt, Fred Houghton
Advisor(s): Clive Dym
Students(s): Heather Lane (PM), Ming-Jay Chow, Don Lee, Esther Lee, Franck Luu (Exch.)

Insulin pump therapy, a growing market in diabetes treatment, utilizes a pager size pump to continuously deliver small amounts of insulin. One particular concern in this system is an inadvertent under-delivery of insulin to the user. The Clinic team researched and prototyped a system to detect the cessation of insulin delivery by identifying occlusions in the infusion set connecting the pump to the user.