AIDA interactive educational freeware diabetes simulator information

AIDA is a freeware computer program that permits the interactive simulation of plasma insulin and blood glucose profiles for demonstration, teaching, self-learning, and research purposes.^[1] Originally developed in 1991,^[2] it has been updated and enhanced since, and made available without charge from 1996 on the World Wide Web.^[3] The program, which is still being updated, has gone through a number of revisions and developments in the 16+ years since its original internet launch. During this time over 2.5 million visits have been logged at the AIDA Websites and more than 400,000 copies of the program have been downloaded.^{[citation needed]} Further copies of the simulator have been made available, in the past, on diskette by the system developers ^[4]^[5]^[6] and from the British Diabetic Association (BDA) — now called 'Diabetes UK' — London, England,^[7] following the BDA's own independent evaluation of the software.^[8] More than 1,075,000 diabetes simulations have been run via a web-based version of the AIDA diabetes simulator.

The AIDA software is intended to serve as an educational support tool and can be used by anyone — person with diabetes, relative of a patient, health care professional (doctor, nurse, clinical diabetes educator, dietician, pharmacist, etc.), or student — even if they may have minimal knowledge of the pathophysiology of diabetes mellitus.

Simulation from AIDA downloadable freeware diabetes simulator showing the effect of omitting a morning insulin injection (before breakfast at 8am). This would send the simulated virtual person with diabetes ('Joy Wilson' [pseudonym]) markedly hyperglycemic in the afternoon (with a predicted blood glucose level of 18.8 mmol/L [338 mg/dL] at 2:30pm) — and leave her at significant risk of developing diabetic ketoacidosis. The simulated blood glucose profile is shown in the upper graph, and the carbohydrate intake and insulin injections are shown in the lower graph, with the simulated plasma insulin profile shown superimposed on the lower graph. The missed usual insulin injection is shown highlighted in yellow.

^ Lehmann, E. D. (1999). "Experience with the Internet release of AIDA v4 — an interactive educational diabetes simulator" (PDF). Diabetes Technol Ther. 1 (1): 41–54. doi:10.1089/152091599317567. PMID 11475304.
^ "A physiological model of glucose-insulin interaction" (PDF). In: IEEE EMBS Proceedings, 13th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 13 (5): 2274–2275. 1991.
^ Lehmann ED (June 1996). "Diabetes moves onto the Internet". Lancet. 347 (9014): 1542. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(96)90684-4. S2CID 54231692.
^ Lehmann ED, Deutsch T, Carson ER, Sonksen PH (April 1994). "Combining rule-based reasoning and mathematical modelling in diabetes care". Artif Intell Med. 6 (2): 137–160. doi:10.1016/0933-3657(94)90042-6. PMID 8049754.
^ Lehmann ED, Deutsch T, Carson ER, Sonksen PH (Jan 1994). "AIDA: an interactive diabetes advisor". Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 41 (3–4): 183–203. doi:10.1016/0169-2607(94)90054-x. PMID 8187465.
^ Lehmann, E.D.; Deutsch, T. (1996). "Computer assisted diabetes care: a 6 year retrospective" (PDF). Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 50 (3): 209–230. doi:10.1016/0169-2607(96)01751-8. PMID 8894381.
^ Lehmann ED, Deutsch T, Broad D: AIDA: an educational simulator for insulin dosage and dietary adjustment in diabetes. British Diabetic Association, London, 1997.
^ Lehmann, Eldon D. (2004). "British Diabetic Association review of the AIDA v4 diabetes software simulator program" (PDF). Diabetes Technol Ther. 6 (1): 87–96. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.608.1325. doi:10.1089/152091504322783477. PMID 15000776.

[1] Lehmann, E. D. (1999). "Experience with the Internet release of AIDA v4 — an interactive educational diabetes simulator" (PDF). Diabetes Technol Ther. 1 (1): 41–54. doi:10.1089/152091599317567. PMID 11475304.

[2] "A physiological model of glucose-insulin interaction" (PDF). In: IEEE EMBS Proceedings, 13th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. 13 (5): 2274–2275. 1991.

[3] Lehmann ED (June 1996). "Diabetes moves onto the Internet". Lancet. 347 (9014): 1542. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(96)90684-4. S2CID 54231692.

[4] Lehmann ED, Deutsch T, Carson ER, Sonksen PH (April 1994). "Combining rule-based reasoning and mathematical modelling in diabetes care". Artif Intell Med. 6 (2): 137–160. doi:10.1016/0933-3657(94)90042-6. PMID 8049754.

[5] Lehmann ED, Deutsch T, Carson ER, Sonksen PH (Jan 1994). "AIDA: an interactive diabetes advisor". Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 41 (3–4): 183–203. doi:10.1016/0169-2607(94)90054-x. PMID 8187465.

[6] Lehmann, E.D.; Deutsch, T. (1996). "Computer assisted diabetes care: a 6 year retrospective" (PDF). Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 50 (3): 209–230. doi:10.1016/0169-2607(96)01751-8. PMID 8894381.

[7] Lehmann ED, Deutsch T, Broad D: AIDA: an educational simulator for insulin dosage and dietary adjustment in diabetes. British Diabetic Association, London, 1997.

[8] Lehmann, Eldon D. (2004). "British Diabetic Association review of the AIDA v4 diabetes software simulator program" (PDF). Diabetes Technol Ther. 6 (1): 87–96. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.608.1325. doi:10.1089/152091504322783477. PMID 15000776.