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5th African conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, South Africa

A literature review for intelligent glucose monitoring systems for geriatric patients.

Sheila Mushati , Tawanda Mushiri & Charles Mbohwa

Publisher: IEOM Society International

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Track: Healthcare Systems

When people get older some will have their insulin receptors non-responsive to the hormone leading to excess glucose levels in the blood circulation and the condition is called type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Individuals with type 2 DM get treatment that will reduce blood glucose level and in order to see whether or not the treatment is a success individual patient need a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM). This article is a literature survey that focuses on how to develop an intelligent glucose monitoring machine that works for geriatric patients both invasive and non-invasiveness ways. The authors focused on both developed and developing nations. It was found out that developed world geriatric patients use variety which involves an under-the-skin sensor for continuous blood sugar tracking. The sensor sends that glucose level wirelessly to an android device which then uses Wi-Fi 4G to share the glucose levels in database and health practitioners (Rghioui, A et al. 2020), whilst developing nations use blood glucose monitoring machines whereby the diabetic individuals uses a lancet to prick themselves and the blood glucose level is written down to show their health practitioner when they go for review the use of needle prick before and after every meal is painful and puts the patient at a risk of developing an infection at the pricked finger. There is a need therefore to come up with a non-invasiveness method which the authors will produce another paper later after this article.

Published in: 5th African conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

Publisher: IEOM Society International
Date of Conference: April 23 -26 , 2024

ISBN: 979-8-3507-0549-2
ISSN/E-ISSN: 2169-8767

https://doi.org/10.46254/AF05.20240214