Ad hoc

Frederiksborg Amts Avis havde lørdag 27. maj 2006 et større tema om insulinpumper. Ifølge avisen vil den kommende Region Sjælland nedsætte et udvalg, der skal se på, om det fremover bliver regionerne eller kommunerne, der skal betale for pumperne. Denne problematik har tidligere af bl.a. undertegnede været rejst i en kronik i Politiken 17. marts 2005. En kronik, der desværre førte til, at indenrigs- og sundhedsminister Lars Løkke Rasmussen (V) understregede, at det er amterne - og dermed i praksis den enkelte sygehusafdeling - der skal betale.

Overlæge ved Roskilde Amts Sygehus, dr. med. Inger Bendtson, kalder over for Frederiksborg Amts Avis denne praksis fuldstændig vanvittig. Pumpen har jo ikke noget med hospitalet at gøre, patienterne skal ikke engang indlægges for at få en pumpe, siger hun.

As you have noticed, if you have looked around on this blog, it is mainly on insulin pump therapy - also known as Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion, or CSII. As I have told in my previous posts, this kind of continuous insulin delivery was a breakthrough for our daughter, Emilie, who has type 1 diabetes - and for our family as a whole.

But delivering insulin to the body continuously in exact amounts only partially meets the challenges of type 1 diabetes. To administer the right amount of insulin, you have to know the level of glucose in your blood. Until recently, the only way of knowing that was to stick your finger and measure the glucose concentration in the drop of blood coming out.

Enter Continuous Glucose Monitoring Systems, or GCMS.

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