Gearing up. An inside look at insulin pump technology.

摘要

As I walked through the halls of Tandem Diabetes Care, one of the newest pump companies on the scene, a vaguely familiar sight caught my eye. Scrawled on a white board was an equation that transported me back to high school physics: P1V1 = P2V2. Boyle's law, the gas law that describes how a decrease in pressure corresponds to an increase in volume. Though I never learned exactly what the folks at Tandem were calculating, I did come to understand that insulin pumps are sophisticated devices that must satisfy the laws of math, physics, health, and-to some degree-personal style.