GluKlose A Mobile Risk Prediction Tool for Diabetic Ketoacidosis

Diabetic Ketoacidosis (DKA) is an acute life-threatening complication of diabetes which could lead to end-organ dysfunction. This is typically diagnosed by low pH, high glucose, and ketone levels. In the past, it was known to occur because of complete insulin deficiency. However, recent research has shown that medications, acute illnesses such as Covid-19 and surgery were found to increase the risk of DKA. The diagnosis can often be missed or delayed due to poor detection and recognition of symptoms.

Renee and Ben are third year medical students researching the risk factors for development of DKA. They intend to create a web-based mobile application for Diabetics, aimed at reducing overall incidence and morbidity of DKA. Their research focuses on identifying the risk factors for development of DKA with the goal of creating a risk prediction model to predict the risk of DKA occurrence. They aim to utilise their findings to create a go-to functional application that Diabetics can use daily to track their glucose levels, along with a built-in risk prediction calculator which predicts the risk of development of DKA when users are unwell.

This project is supervised by Professor Charles Inderjeeth and Dr Seng Khee Gan. It is also supported by the Australia Centre of Accelerating Diabetes Innovation (ACADI) Health Technology Innovation Seed-Funding Grant, which can be utilised to aid in application development (https://medicine.unimelb.edu.au/research/acadi/training-opportunities/acadi-healthtech-innovation-challenge). The final application may be trialled by a group of Diabetics to evaluate its accuracy in predicting DKA hand overall usability and potentially utilised in future research publications.

Feel free to contact us if you would like more information on our project!

Client


Contact: Renee Ng
Phone: 0413155434
Email: [email protected]
Preferred contact: Email,SMS
Location: Perth

IP Exploitation Model


The IP exploitation model requested by the Client is: An agreement to joint exploitation of any IP that is created


Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
Last modified: 12 July 2024
Modified By: Michael Wise 		UWA