ICU glucose monitoring measured in plasma using mid-infrared spectroscopy

There are increasing calls for a highly accurate, automated system to enable tight glycemic control and avoid hypoglycemia in an ICU setting. OptiScan Biomedical has developed a glucose monitor based on mid-infrared spectroscopy that draws blood samples (120 μl) and measures plasma glucose concentrations approximately every 15 minutes. The goal of this study was to validate the performance of the OptiScan model 5000 (OptiScanner) at different glycemic levels in a healthy diabetic patient population.