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cKinley Elementary School kindergartener Mason Dooley is all smiles as she receives her flu shot from Theresa Bickford, LPN, of VNA during the last week of the GeGene
Genesis nesis Flu-Free Quad Cities effort. sis RN Karolyn Meier gives a shot to McKinley student Duncan Copp, fifth grade. The initiative wrapped up Wednesday after givinshots in 72 Quad City-area elto
g 8,010 flu ementary schools.
day

november 22, 2013
New diabetes
Flu-Free QC
technology provides s
afety, security
Genesis patient anxious
to use new pumpthey do wake up, they
system
Pam Davis has Type 1 d may not be capable of treating themselves. If their blood sugar gets too
iabetes and knows all too well what can happen when her blood sugar suddenly dips too low. She has wrecke low, they can have a seizure, become unconscious or even die.”
d her car twice. Her husband has had to give her middle-of- the-night injections of Glucagon toher outA life-saving device
For years, Menke has been
bring of an insulin reaction.
Although an insulin pump h on-call at night to help those patients who have received a new insulin pump.
Free vaccinations for school children as helped her maintain better control of her blood sugar over the past four years, she still doesn’t always wake up or For the first week on the pump, they are given certain blood sugar level param
hear when her pump sounds an alert that her blood sugar is dangerously low. She wears hearing aideters and instructed to check every few hours, including at midnight an
s.
Now, a new insulin pump and sensor system recently approved by thabd 3 a.m. If their levels are over or under, they are urged to give her a call at ho
e FDA is out to change her life and protect her from the potentially deadly consequences of low blood sugar. Thme.
She occasionally sacrifices sleep because
e technology is so groundbreaking, the FDA has created a new category for it -- artificial pancreas device system.
she knows it’s so important to make sure their blood sugar levels remai
Public flu immunization clinic in Iowa and Illinois.
Davis of Davenport is among 40 pof then at a safe level over night.
Pam Davis of Davenport, who has Type 1 diabetes530G with Enlite – n
atients Genesis Diabetes Care Center who have received and soon will be trained to use the new Medtronic Mi, will soon learn how to use the new Medtronic MiniMed ew breakthrough technology to protect her from the potentially deadly consequenceof low blood sugar. The system will automatically shut off insulin delivery wsugar levels that are too low and the patient Diabetes CareThe new Medtronic pump and sensor system is about to make her night’s s
niMed 530G with Enlite -- the first U.S. system of its kind to automatically shut off insulin delivery when its ss hen its sensor detects blood doesn’t respond to its alarm. She is a patient of the Genesis Center.
leep a whole lot better. “With this new system, I don’t think I’ll be getting macalls,” MeAlmost a year
ensor detects blood sugar levels that are too low and the patient doesn’t respond to its alarm.
ny nke says. “This will provide patients with a real sense of security.”
later, and with the system’s approval by the FDA in September, Davis recently received her new pump sin the“Before I was on an insulin pump, I wrecked my car tA
The device, for people with diabetes age 16 and older who require insucoystem mail. She will undergo training to use it next week with the help of the Genesis Diabetes Care Cewice because of low blood sugars -- one of those times I ended up in a culvert and totally wremy car,” large percentage of low blood sugars occur overnight, and many people sleep through those lows. T
lin, is nsidered an important step toward the creation of an artificial pancreas. Such a “pancreas” would be
nter.
“I liked that the new pump system has a louder siren, so if cked Davis says. Each time, she was on her way home to Davenport, bypassed her house, and endWhey can wake up soaked in sweat or their partner or spouse can find them seizing or unconscious.
fully automated and -- in the future -- mimic the insulin deI’m not wearing my hearing aids I can hopefully hear it,” Davis says. “It also gives warnings if yblood suged up in alcott without any recollection of how she got there.
The Medtronic syste
livery of a healthy pancreas.
“Notour ar is getting too low, and if you don’t do anything to correct it, it automatically shuts off the insdSeveral times in the middle of the night, her husband has given her injections of Glucagon, am brings peace of mind because it has a threshold alarm and a
only is this system going to improve quality of life, but it’s ulin elivery.”
Previous systems did potentially life-saving treatment for insulin coma or insulin reaction caused by severe low blsugan automatic shut-off mechanism. The pump will stop delivering insu
going to be life-saving for some people with diabetes,” says M not have the automatic shutoff mechanism. Also, the new Enlite sensor has a 31 percent improvemenood r. “You’re in severe trouble if you have dangerously low blood sugar in the middle of the night and lin if those levels reach the low threshold set on the device by their medical
arsha Menke, Manager of the Genesis Diabetes Care Center.
t in overall accuracy from the previous generation. It provides better glucose control compared to mudailyyou don’t wake up,” Davis says.
To this day, her h provider.
More security
“A lot of times, people wltiple injections, is more comfortable and is easier to insert with a hidden introducer needle and a one-buttonusband worries if she is out shopping and stays away later than expected; it crosses his mind that shmay havPam Davis, who was diagnosed with Type 1
ith severe nocturnal hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) are dee insertion process.
Throughout her ye e collapsed from low blood sugar. She’s ecstatic for the new pump system for the peace of min diabetes 30 years ago, first learned about the new Medtronic MiniMed Marsha Menke
p sleepers and may not wake up with some of the early symptoms or they may have hypoglycemiears with diabetes, Davis has been plagued with blood sugars that suddenly dip without warOften, shd it will bring her and her husband.
“When I was first dia530G with Enlite while
watching a diabetes web program last December. She wanted one so bgav
a unawareness. By the time
ning. e is unaware when this is occurring.
gnosed 30 years ago, I thought ‘There will never be anything in my lifetime to help.’ I’m so glad to be wadly, she e the company a call.
rong,” Davis concludes.
--- By Linda Barlow, Genesis
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