DRUG ADMINISTRATION BASED ON A PATIENT'S ACTIVITY STATUS MEASURED BY ACCELERATION SENSORS

摘要

It is described a drug delivery system (100) that is adapted to infuse a drug in a profile related to the activity status of a patient (595). The system comprises acceleration sensors (112), dedicated electronics (120) and software to monitor the patient's activity and maintain control over the drug-release profile. The described system (100) enables a personalized treatment of patients (595) by monitoring their individual activity status and coupling this information to a drug delivery following appropriate delivery profiles. The system (100) may be provided with a memory in order to store a time dependence of activity data. This time dependence may be used by physicians to monitor, support and adapt their therapy for the patients. The system(100) maybe realized as a closed-loop system for monitoring and treatment of various diseases such as Parkinson s disease. Accelerations sensors (112) may be used in order to directly monitor a positional state and/or motions of the patient's body. The described system may allow for a more efficient use of the delivered drugs. This will result both in a reduction of the amount of required medication and a reduction of power required by the system (100).