AIDA on-line: a glucose and insulin simulator on the WWW

Abstract

A glucose and insulin simulator, AIDA on-line, was completed to fulfill a senior design project and is available for educational purposes through the World Wide Web 0. Designed to be accessible and usable by anyone who desires to learn more about diabetes, AIDA on-line is available through The Shodor Education Foundation at http://www.shodor.org/aida/.The code for the WWW version was written in Perl and relies heavily on previously completed work on the AIDA glucose-insulin simulator. AIDA on-line allows the user to make modifications in diet and insulin regimen for 40 different pre-programmed "patients" or to create a patient with custom-designed specifications. Multiple simulations can be run in order to compare the results of changes in diet and/or insulin regimen. The results of two different simulations can be displayed on the same graph. INTRODUCTIONThe increasing popularity of the Internet and advances in technology have made it possible to implement interactive models on the WWW. AIDA on-line is an educational simulator that was designed to assist diabetics, students, and other interested parties in obtaining a better understanding of how insulin and glucose interact within the body (Figure 1).

Dynamic Interactive Educational Diabetes Simulations Using the World Wide Web: An Experience of More Than 15 Years with AIDA Online

“…Large swings in meal carbohydrate intakes result in obvious swings in BG levels that require adjustments to be made to insulin injections to correct the perturbations in the simulated patient. As has been highlighted previously by Blanchard et al, the advantage of having multiple preprogrammed simulated “patients” allows the user to see the effect of these changes on different body types that have various insulin sensitivities [ 41 ].…”

Biomedical Engineering, Trends in Electronics, Communications and Software

“…More specifically, results have been obtained by loading into the used artificial glucometer some realistic glycemia values of a diabetic patient recorded during a whole day. For such a goal, glucose values to be transmitted have been obtained from AIDA web site (AIDA, 2010), that is an on-line educational simulator designed to assist interested parties in obtaining a better understanding of how insulin and glucose interact within the body (Blanchard, 1998). More specifically, one of the sample cases proposed on the AIDA web site (the number 0015 referring to the virtual patient named "Edward Carllson"), has been chosen, and the virtual patient's blood glucose values have been charged on the artificial glucometer connected to the S-Tag.…”

Smart Data Collection and Management in Heterogeneous Ubiquitous Healthcare

“…12, for instance, the reported results refer to the blood glucose monitoring in the range 4 -12 mmol/ l. More specifically, results have been obtained by loading into the used artificial glucometer some realistic glycemia values of a diabetic patient recorded during a whole day. For such a goal, glucose values to be transmitted have been obtained from AIDA web site (AIDA, 2010), that is an on-line educational simulator designed to assist interested parties in obtaining a better understanding of how insulin and glucose interact within the body (Blanchard, 1998). More specifically, one of the sample cases proposed on the AIDA web site (the number 0015 referring to the virtual patient named " Edward Carllson" ), has been chosen, and the virtual patient's blood glucose values have been charged on the artificial glucometer connected to the S-Tag.…”