Theotherpancreas.org Website Review

A fully autonomous artificial pancreas system consisting of a home-grown insulin pump, a Dexcom® continuous glucose monitor, and The goal of TOP is to eliminate the burdens of living with Type 1 Diabetes. The Other Pancreas (TOP) is designed to make carb-counting a thing of the past. Humans aren't good at carb-counting. If you guess too high and do too much insulin, your blood sugar goes low. If you guess too low and don't do enough insulin, your blood sugar ends up high. TOP overcomes this by delivering the necessary boluses every five minutes. TOP's algorithms are designed to handle meals and other Much like a real top, The Other Pancreas is designed to magically balance all of the forces influencing your diabetes. TOP occasionally requires a little push to keep it spinning. That push is as simple as calibrating your CGM, changing your infusion site, reloading your insulin cartridge and swapping your battery. If TOP gets those few simple pushes then it can keep spinning in what appears to be a magic defiance of gravity. In reality, hundreds of precise calculations and treatments are being executed automatically on your behalf, allowing TOP was designed to be a smart, easily-upgradable, easy-to-use platform unhindered by a pump's limited computing and input power. The TOP mobile app uses bluetooth to communicate with the pump and Dexcom®, then uses the phone's incredible computing power to review the past week and quickly make hundreds of decisions to determine what the optimal treatment is. The actual infusion pump was designed to be dumb with all of the brains and controls being inside a smart phone. As such, the 3D printed pump can be built for as little as $100. Even with such inexpensive hardware, the pump still delivers very precise doses, and TOP communicates directly with Dexcom®'s industry leading continuous glucose monitoring to track your glucose and respond accordingly. No intermediary devices are required. You don't even need to install any Dexcom® apps. Calibrations and sensor management are all handled with