What is the more detailed history of the Glucommander?
Glucommander had its beginnings in 1983 when Paul Davidson, then practicing at Emory University , told Dennis Steed, a medicine resident and engineering school graduate, about his new approach to managing diabetic patients using intravenous insulin. Davidson had read a paper [White et al, Practical closed-loop insulin delivery. A system for the maintenance of overnight euglycemia and the calculation of basal insulin requirements in insulin-dependent diabetics. Ann Intern Med. 1982 Aug;97(2):210-3] describing a protocol for administering intravenous insulin to patients in the clinical research unit at Washington University in St. Louis . This paper described a sliding scale approach in which the insulin infusion rate in units per hour was adjusted based on the hourly bedside measurement of blood glucose. Davidson realized that the proposed sliding scale was cumbersome and would need to be changed based on variations in insulin sensitivity. Davidson proposed an approach using a formula w
