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. 2012 Sep 1;6(5):1053–1059. doi: 10.1177/193229681200600509

Table 1.

Summary of FDA Insulin Pump Adverse Event Reports for Ages 1–12 Years, January 1, 1996, through December 31, 2009

Total: 1774 (846 males, 907 females, 21 unknown gender)

Types of events
Overall hospitalizations 777
 Hospitalizations for hyperglycemia and/or DKA 614
 Hospitalizations for hypoglycemia 98
 Hospitalized with erratic blood glucose 2
 Hospitalized for abscess infection at pump site 1
 Hospitalized for unrelated bicycle accident 1
 Other 61

Emergency Department visits, total 106
 With hyperglycemia and/or DKA 77
 With hypoglycemia 25
 With erratic blood glucose 3
 With insulin squirting out pump 1

Paramedic assistance required 19
 For hypoglycemia 18
 For hyperglycemia 1

Deaths 5

Other/nonserious 867