Continuous IPRO2 glucose monitor of Medtronic

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Ibérica Medtronic has presented in Spain its latest advance in technology applied to diabetes management: a new system of continuous glucose monitoring that will allow diabetes patients to carry out optimal control of their disease.

IPRO2 is a continuous monitoring device that detects those fluctuations in glucose levels that produce complications and normally go unnoticed in glycosylated hemoglobins and in the usual glucose measurements.

Identify the problem facilitates the solution
«IPRO2 is very useful for any patient in which it is considered necessary and help access six -day glycemic profiles.Identified the problem will have to look for a solution.Obviously it is those more complex management patients who can benefit most from IPRO2, ”says Dr. Conget.

In this sense, it is worth highlighting the usefulness of the device in patients with nocturnal hypoglycemia or inadvertent hypoglycemia, patients with difficulties to achieve the objective of HBA1C, pregnant children and women who experience a significant glycemic variability or patients who have discrepancies between HBA1C and notebooksof registration.

Being comfortable access to 288 measurements allows us to know the glycemic profile of the patient in his real and everyday life."Continuously individualized monitoring can help identify periods of the day that require changes in treatment," says the specialist.

Intuitive and useful reports
IPRO2 is simple for both patients and professionals.It includes a glucose sensor and a small data memory that automatically records the information related to glucose.The operation of the device, just 3 x 3 cm, does not require any previous training for the patient.

Once the data has been registered, the information stored on the device is easily downloaded through a fully integrated web platform that allows a simple data evaluation through complete and visual graphics.«The reports are very intuitive and easy to understand with just a look.

Both for the professional and to use them as an educational material for the patient, ”adds Dr. Conget.In this sense, reports are useful to motivate the patient when implementing changes in the management of their disease after checking the effects that exercise guidelines, meals, stress and medication have on their glucose levels.

High degree of satifaction
According to data from a survey conducted in 10 Spanish centers to 117 patients with diabetes who carried IPRO2 for six days, in Spain, 87% assured that the device had allowed them to lead their lives without any restriction, so they would have no problem intake it back.

In the case of professionals, 98% of the participating endocrine said that it would recommend to their patients the periodic use of IPRO2 in the future, as a key tool for improving diabetes control.

From the clinical point of view, in 77% of cases IPRO2 detected at least one hypoglycemia not detected by traditional methods.In 35% of cases, this figure amounted to three previously detected hypoglycemia.

Finally, the professionals participating in the study, belonging to 10 reference hospital centers in Spain and Portugal, said that in 97% of cases the therapy was changed or adjusted based on the IPRO2 reports.

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I've been looking for something like that, aMeter that was only that, meter and that you could use any device as a receiver, I currently have the Onetouch® Ultrasmart® capillary meter that is compatible with the continuous meter wirelessly.Has anyone tried or knows anything about him?This afternoon I am going to call Medtronic to see how it can be achieved, although I fear that it will be by means of a medical prescription.

All the best.

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02/22/2011 7:30 a.m.
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It is not to disappoint you but continuous glucose meters have been for a long time.

In the news I see nothing new: "A new system of continuous glucose monitoring that will allow patients with diabetes to carry out optimal control of their disease" but it does not talk about the new thing, does blood glucose directly measures?Does glucose measure through interstitial fluid as the systems that currently exist?Do you use any type of laser technology that makes the system as invasive as current glucose measurement systems?Do you use sensors equally expensive as those of current systems?

"IPRO2 is a continuous monitoring device that detects those fluctuations in glucose levels that produce complications and normally go unnoticed in glycosylated hemoglobins and in the usual glucose measurements."This is done by continuous glucose meters systems.

I do not see anything new in this news, it sounds like pure and hard advertising of a continuous glucose meter like those that already exist in the market.

I would also know things as the price of the device and price of consumables (sensors) to get an idea of ​​whether it is worth compared to the products that are already in the market (since they are all charged).

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02/22/2011 8:12 a.m.
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I am not very sure, Victor, I will call Medtronic to corroborate it, but I think this system is an improvement of the old minimed that was used in hospitals to try to see the glycemic movement of poorly controlled people, and that we even had to try before puttingThe bomb to Ángela .... If I have not read badly in the Medtronic Link, it has no screen, it has no alarms and what it does is a reset of your glycemia and then interpret .... I do not know, I have usedThe minilink, this seems to me a delay, at least from the patient's point of view and I think it is more focused on professionals who want to observe the trends of certain patients, but I already say that I will inform myself to see if I am wrong or not.What else gives me that 5 days ago I had an isolated "isolated glycemic excursion and has planted me in 300 .... What I need is a system that tells me about my glycemia ... come on, I think, I think.
Check out the threads about Guardian Real Time, Minilink, etc., to see what you think and if you are looking for.
Greetings.

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02/22/2011 8:14 a.m.

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May I know, the IPRO is basically for hospital use, because it is a "black box" that is collecting measures to then pour them and be able to analyze them by the medical team.It is something that replaces such old equipment as the Menarini glucody that was used in many hospitals until four days ago.Something like a glucose holter, to understand us.

Responding to TNT, because I don't see anything new either.But as things are at the technological level on these devices, optical measurement does not bear fruit as expected.The system has not been purified and make it reliable, so the different developments of companies that went through that way have crashed one after another.And what remains remains invasive: catheter and interstitial measurement.

Returning to the answer to Victor.vera, for domestic use, Medtronic still has its Guardian, which is the one that will be recommended if you talk to them.But remember, when you ask Medtronic's price, sit down first, I advise you.Lest you give you a vahido.:)) :)) :)) :))

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02/22/2011 10:22 a.m.

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Seeing the subject I will continue to crowd the fingertips.The fact is that I start to think that I work on computer science issues and see the advance of technology that are not able to get a small meter that connects via bluetooth or wifi to your mobile and you are making the measurements and be affordableTo everyone.But of course, I also think and I realize that it would not be economically advantageous for manufacturers / pharmacies, etc., etc.

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02/22/2011 10:38 a.m.
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Hello everyone, I wanted to ask if the ipro is like the pump, and leaves the amount of HC you have ingested and the insulin units that you have put yourself, or simply record the glycemies you have had, without providing more data.THANK YOU.

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12/11/2013 6:40 a.m.
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@Roar, the ipro is a blind continuous meter, it is for hospital use as already mentioned, we as that system has known the minimed, if I remember correctly you could put events (intake, bowl, exercise), so when the endoThe graphs analyzed the information it provided was much more complete ... that can also be done with the meters that are currently both the minilink and the DEXCOM, of course to modify guidelines the more data you have much better.

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12/11/2013 6:50 a.m.

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Can you put the intake, bolus and exercise, or is it only in the minimed, minilink and dexcom?

Does anyone know if with the ipro you can go to the pool? ... Thank you!.

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12/11/2013 11:07 a.m.
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@Roar, the IPRO2 is a continuous professional, hospital use.I do not know if they have been told that they will put it in your hospital, because it does not work for users to make decisions such as dexcom or minilink ... you can put events (they are due), insulin, food, exercise... And I don't have it so clear about the pool, I think the emitter is, the emitter is the same as the minilink, the problem is that you take off.It lasts 6 days, and it is the doctor who downloads the data and sees the graphs that have occurred during those days ... it works like a holter.

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12/17/2013 5:14 a.m.

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They have put it to me and they have already taken it away.You cannot put the insulin that you put on or what you eat or the exercise you do, for me they have given me a piece of paper and I have written everything with a pencil.In any case, thanks for your answer.

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12/18/2013 9:54 a.m.
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How strange, roar, if you look at Google the graphs you take are with the events ... my daughter had the previousThey take out precisely to make decisions and those decisions do not depend only on the glycemia that marks.

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12/18/2013 1:48 p.m.

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@Roar, there is the link, if you see the graph you will see that the events are involved, and that is done through the receiving device.They may not have taught you how to do it, and then they then put them from the data that you bring them by hand, but we are going to be that the user is an older person does not make much sense.

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12/18/2013 1:56 p.m.

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Well, it will be that, that they are going to do it ... Anyway, I remember that when I asked for the bomb my doctor replied: "Why? To play with the Botoncitos?"(Literal), so I am no longer surprised :-(

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