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Open Access
01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Alarm performance in a novel continuous glucose monitor
Authors:
R Gottlieb, N Yang, F Luo, C Chiu, R Joshi, S Smith
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
The ability of a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) to provide actionable information is of utmost importance in the critical care setting. Medtronic has developed a new CGM specifically for the hospital environment. A human feasibility trial was conducted to assess the performance of this system in the ICU. While often overlooked, alarm performance is essential to characterizing both the safety and value of any clinical system - especially in a critical care setting. An analysis was conducted on the sensitivity and specificity of the alarm algorithm to simulate the expected performance when used in the clinical setting. …