GlucaPen for Easier Glucagon Injections

Glucagon hormone injections are administered during emergency situations when a diabetic is in severe hypoglycemic shock. The common scenario in such a case is the patient being unconscious and a caretaker is scrambling to reconstitute glucagon, whose formulations nowadays require mixing of solutions and tinkering with small equipment. In an emergency, when hands are shaking and staying cool is difficult, one can have a situation even more dysfunctional than that adrenaline injection scene in Pulp Fiction.
Bernard Farrell, who writes the Diabetes Technology Blog, spoke with Dick Rylander of Enject, a company developing the GlucaPen, an easier glucagon injection system.
Read on at Bernard Farrell’s Diabetes Technology Blog…