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Diabetes

 

Diabetes is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or alternatively, when the body cannot effectively use the insulin it produces. Insulin is a hormone that regulates blood sugar. Hyperglycemia, or raised blood sugar, is therefore a common effect of uncontrolled diabetes, and over time it leads to serious damage to many of the body's systems, especially the nerves and blood vessels.

 

The two most significant types of diabetes are called type 1-diabetes and type 2-diabetes. Type 1-diabetes is typically found in children and younger people, but the disease does occur in all age groups. It is characterized by a lack of insulin production and the symptoms include: Excessive excretion of urine, thirst, constant hunger, weight loss, vision changes and fatigue. It can occur in a few days or weeks and the treatment is daily administration of insulin. Type 2-diabetesusually occurs later in life and is to some extent caused by our way of life. This type of diabetes results from the body’s ineffective use of insulin, and the symptoms may resemble those of type 1-diabetes, but are often less marked. The disease may develop over a long period of time (up to 10 years), meaning that it may be diagnosed when complications have already risen.

 

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that more than 180 million people worldwide suffer from diabetes and that this number is likely to more than double by 2030. Type 2-diabetes comprises around 90% of people with diabetes.

 

The RTX3370/RTX3371 can be configured with specific devices and questions. For diabetes this could be a certain blood pressure monitor and blood glucose monitor. Keeping the blood glucose as close to normal as possible is the best way to avoid or delay complications of diabetes. Collecting vital signs will be supported by personalized symptomatic questions.

 

It is beneficial to ask symptomatic questions, because it can help patients gain a greater understanding of their symptoms, and thereby contribute in improving the patient’s awareness of their own condition, and make them react on any changes that might occur.

 

Questions can be posed every day after vital sign data from the devices have been received. The number, order and type (simple yes/no or multiple choice) of questions can easily be customized. Questions and the progress of a ‘question tree’ are defined in scripts that can be downloaded to the RTX3370/RTX3371 remotely, if there is a need for updating or renewing the questions.

 

Since all content (external devices, questions, reminders, etc) of the RTX3370/RTX3371 is configurable it can easily be configured to be used for other chronic diseases and cormobidity (patients with more than one disease). The RTX3370/3371 is very flexible.

The RTX3370/RTX3371 is designed to be very simple to use as many diabetes patients are elderly people, who are not technologically advanced. With this in mind, it only has a few large buttons, a large display screen and a speaker for additional vocal support. Use of the RTX3370/RTX3371 does not require knowledge or interest in technology. All data, vital signs and/or questions/answers are automatically sent to a clinical database by use of a normal residual telephone line (RTX3370) or by GSM/GPRS (RTX3371).

 

RTX3370/RTX3371 supported devices for diabetes: Roche Diagnostics Accu-check Compact, Accu-check Compact Plus, Accu-check, Aviva (InfraRed) (Blood Glucose Monitor). Abbott Labs. FreeStyle, FreeStyle Flash (RS232) (Blood Glucose Monitor). LifeScan OneTouch Series (RS232) (Blood Glucose Monitor). Bayer Contour, Breeze and Breeze2 (RS232) (Blood Glucose Monitor).

 

The blood glucose monitor can be supplemented with a blood pressure monitor:

• A&D Medical blood pressure monitor UA-767 plus BT (Bluetooth).
• IEM blood pressure monitor (Bluetooth).
• Nonin Onyx II oximeter (Bluetooth)

 

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