Patent ID: 7429255

Claim:
A closed loop medicament pump system for a patient for sampling and determining the concentration of a substance of interest through the patient's skin and for determining and delivering a responsive dose of an appropriate medicament to the patient comprising: an iontopheretic sensor module for sampling and detecting a concentration of a substance of interest through skin, wherein the sensor module comprises a sampling system and a concentration determining system; a control system, responsive to the iontopheretic sensor module, for determining a response to the sampled and determined concentration of a substance of interest; a sensor telemetry system for transmitting information regarding the response determined by the control system through the patient's body; a pump telemetry system for receiving information regarding the response determined by the control system through the patient's body and for communicating the information to an implantable drug pump; and an implantable drug pump, acting in response to the information communicated to the implantable drug pump from the pump telemetry system, to deliver a responsive dose of an appropriate medicament to the patient.