THE IMPLANTABLE GLUCOSE SENSOR IN DIABETES: A BIOENGINEERING CASE STUDY

Diabetes is a devastating disease that is rapidly becoming more prevalent worldwide. All approaches to therapy in diabetes are based on management of blood glucose, and there is a need for a broadly acceptable sensor to continuously monitor glucose. This chapter describes the rationale for new glucose sensors and how they would be used, and reviews our recent work on development of a long-term implantable sensor. Diabetes is an area where there are many opportunities to employ the powerful tools of bioengineering.