Week in review / next steps
This week was a whirlwind; so much stuff was accomplished and I am very excited about the possible success of our patient project. We met with our patient multiple times this week, both in a public setting and privately to talk about some more intimate details. When we revealed that our idea would alert a user if their insulin pump was tunneling (not properly delivering insulin to the body), our patient responded that such a device would be “frickin’ awesome.” I think that may have been one of the highlights of my week, knowing that the project I am working on could have such a positive reception. There is much more work to be done, though.
In this coming week, we plan on testing the conductance of insulin on the skin, so that we will be able to quantify a value that will be used as a sensory threshold for our device. We also need to find a way to account for the presence of sweat on the skin and prevent that from causing false positives. This is our main roadblock in our design, and I hope that it doesn’t cause the wheels to fall off of this project.
-Dan
BME Design 