1. Pascal's Wager: Combining Continuous Glucose Monitoring and Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion
- Author
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Tolu Olateju and David Kerr
- Subjects
Blood Glucose ,Technology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Injections, Subcutaneous ,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism ,Combined use ,Monitoring, Ambulatory ,symbols.namesake ,Insulin Infusion Systems ,Endocrinology ,Nothing ,Humans ,Hypoglycemic Agents ,Insulin ,Medicine ,Pascal's Wager ,Intensive care medicine ,Existence of God ,Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic ,computer.programming_language ,Type 1 diabetes ,business.industry ,Continuous glucose monitoring ,Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring ,Pascal (programming language) ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Subcutaneous insulin ,Medical Laboratory Technology ,Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 ,symbols ,business ,computer - Abstract
Pascal's Wager is a suggestion posed by the French Philosopher, Blaise Pascal, that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should wager that God exists because he or she has everything to gain and nothing to lose. In the area of consideration here, the optimum experimental trial of the combined use of continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion and real-time continuous glucose monitoring in free-living individuals with type 1 diabetes providing rock-solid evidence of clinical benefit has not been performed. Nevertheless, there is considerable enthusiasm for combining the technologies among healthcare professionals, patients, and manufacturers based on the belief that this approach to diabetes care must be beneficial beyond the available evidence (i.e., reason).
- Published
- 2010