Are the papers here [1] relevant? I sat in on this conference session as a student, and don't have access to the full papers to check my recollection. As I recall, most of the papers revolved about the theme of closed loop control of blood sugar.
At the time this was presented, the results were billed as the biggest advance in Intensive Care in recent history. The authors claimed to have hard numbers, showing that closed loop control of blood sugar for ICU patients was delivering (something like 40% if memory serves me???) fewer deaths for ICU patients. I'm not in the ICU area, so I don't know if the techniques outlined in the paper made it into clinical practice or real products. If so, you'd think it would trickle down into diabetes management. As a non-diabetic, am I completely misunderstanding the problem?
The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) is the peak body for control research, so there's a good chance you will read about any new closed loop system there.
At the time this was presented, the results were billed as the biggest advance in Intensive Care in recent history. The authors claimed to have hard numbers, showing that closed loop control of blood sugar for ICU patients was delivering (something like 40% if memory serves me???) fewer deaths for ICU patients. I'm not in the ICU area, so I don't know if the techniques outlined in the paper made it into clinical practice or real products. If so, you'd think it would trickle down into diabetes management. As a non-diabetic, am I completely misunderstanding the problem?
The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) is the peak body for control research, so there's a good chance you will read about any new closed loop system there.
[1] http://www.sysid2006.org/Wednesday.html#web4
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Edit: A couple more links from my poking around. Might provide some reading if closed loop control of diabetes is of interest.
http://www.medschl.cam.ac.uk/paediatrics/pages/wilinska.html
Closed Loop Insulin Infusion for Critically Ill Patients (with pictures of an actual device):
http://www.clinicip.org/
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Edit: Found the actual numbers here: http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=proj.doc...
42% reduction in mortality, compared to the old insulin control method, which I presume is open-loop?