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Improving IV Insulin Administration in a Community Hospital
Published on: June 11, 2012
A finite element model for insulin adsorption in ICU infusion sets
Abstract:
Insulin adsorption has been observed in ICU delivery lines, and is especially problematic in the delivery of insulin within the neonatal ICU. This paper presents a two state model with adsorptive loss described as a predator-prey term with parameters Ki and Beq. This model is discretized to N sub volumes along the length of an infusion set. The model was found to converge to a solution for N>~100-150. The model was fit to literature data, and it was found that the total adsorptive capacity of a material (Beq, U/m2) was hyperbolically related to flow rate. If the average rate constant Ki was used with the hyperbolic relationship, the model was able to describe adsorption dynamics at all 3 examined flow rates for a polyethylene line.
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