Patent ID: 8118741

Claim:
Method for warning of imminent hypoglycaemic attacks for people such as diabetics characterized in that the warning is based on analysis of one or more electroencephalographic (EEG) signals from a person without the use of electrocardiographic (ECG) signals, said method comprising: providing said person with a portable hypoglycaemic attack warning system comprising an interface unit implanted below the person's skin and an externally worn unit, said implanted interface unit having connected thereto implanted EEG signal gathering electrodes and further comprising a wireless signal transmitter, said externally worn unit comprising a signal processing unit for wirelessly receiving signals transmitted by the interface unit and for performing analysis of said signals for identifying characteristics therein indicative of an imminent hypoglycaemic attack; wirelessly receiving transmitted EEG signals in said signal processing unit and performing analysis of said signals therein so as to detect an imminent hypoglycaemic attack and giving a warning to said person that a said attack is determined to be imminent.