Glucosim: Educational Software for Virtual Experiments with Patients with Type 1 Diabetes

Author

Agar, Baris U. ; Eren, Meriyan ; Cinar, Ali

Author_Institution

Dept. of Chem. & Environ. Eng., Illinois Inst. of Technol., Chicago, IL

fYear

2006

Firstpage

845

Lastpage

848

Abstract

GLUCOSIM is an educational software package that simulates blood glucose and insulin dynamics in healthy individuals and patients with type 1 diabetes. It is being used to assist biomedical and chemical engineering students in visualizing the dynamic variations in blood glucose concentration in response to external variations such as food consumption and insulin administration. A nutritional database has been integrated to GLUCOSIM to provide meal inputs to the simulation. The simulator has been improved by the modification of mathematical models, and it has been adapted to include currently available commercial insulin brands

Keywords

biochemistry; biomedical education; blood; diseases; medical computing; molecular biophysics; GLUCOSIM; biomedical engineering; blood glucose concentration; chemical engineering; educational software package; food consumption; insulin administration; insulin dynamics; mathematical models; nutritional database; type 1 diabetes; virtual experiments; Biomedical engineering; Blood; Chemical engineering; Chemical technology; Diabetes; Equations; Insulin; Mathematical model; Plasma simulation; Sugar;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616547

Filename

1616547