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Published in: Critical Care 1/2011

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 | Special Issue 1/2011

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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. …
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Title
Alarm performance in a novel continuous glucose monitor
Authors
R Gottlieb
N Yang
F Luo
C Chiu
R Joshi
S Smith
Publication date
01-02-2011
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 1/2011
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc9828

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