{"id":2955,"date":"2005-04-05T23:26:05","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T23:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/continuous-moni\/"},"modified":"2005-04-05T23:26:05","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T23:26:05","slug":"continuous-moni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/continuous-moni\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuous Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Diabetes Mine: Continuous Monitoring: The Next Big Thing\" href=\"http:\/\/amy_tenderich.typepad.com\/diabetes_mine\/2005\/04\/continuous_moni.html\">Diabetes Mine: Continuous Monitoring: The Next Big Thing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the trackback will work, but here&#8217;s the deal &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>They can&#8217;t get it to work reliabily.  <\/p>\n<p>Minimed has had a continous monitor that doctors give to their patients to wear for 3 days and then they download the data.<\/p>\n<p>For over a year, Minimed has been promising a patient worn, all the time device.  So far, it hasn&#8217;t been made available.  It&#8217;s called the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my guesses from the research I&#8217;ve been reading:<\/p>\n<p>a) The FDA won&#8217;t release another continuous monitor until they are sure they work (can we say, Glucowatch).<\/p>\n<p>b) There is probably an issue with waterproofness.  Minimed has already gone up in flames over a waterproof issue, and lets face it, if this thing won&#8217;t let someone shower or bath, it&#8217;s worthless.<\/p>\n<p>c)  We already know that the FDA won&#8217;t release the first generation with a real time reading.  None of the devices that are going through the approval process with a real time reading, only alarms.<\/p>\n<p>On the Glucowatch thing.  It works, if you don&#8217;t mind your arm being burned and you understand how it works.  It can&#8217;t be used when you exert yourself, as it takes any prespiration as a low reading.  Also, any reading you has at least a 20 minute lag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diabetes Mine: Continuous Monitoring: The Next Big Thing Hopefully the trackback will work, but here&#8217;s the deal &#8230;. They can&#8217;t get it to work reliabily. Minimed has had a continous monitor that doctors give to their patients to wear for 3 days and then they download the data. For over a year, Minimed has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetic-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}