Abbott FreeStyle Navigator - Testing Sample and Interpreting Results

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6. Test the sample. Do Not:
•Useteststripsmorethanonce.Discardusedteststrips.
•Scrape the blood.
•Applybloodtotheatsideoftheteststrip.
•Applybloodtotheteststripwhenthe test strip is out of
the receiver.
•Apply blood to both edges of the test strip.
•Putbloodorforeignobjects into the receiver’s test
strip port.
a. Holding the receiver at a slight angle to the sample, gently
touch the half-circle on the test strip to the sample.
Important: Your blood glucose level must be between 60 and
300 mg/dL (3.3 and 16.7 mmol/L) to be able to perform
calibration tests. If your blood glucose level is changing
rapidly, you may not be able to calibrate the system.
b. Observe the receiver:
•estopwatchicondoesNOT
appear within 5 seconds.
Continue adding blood sample to the
SAME half-circle for up to 60 seconds.
•ereceiverBEEPS ONCE (only
if Progress Tones are turned on).
Enough blood has been used.
•estopwatchiconappears. e receiver is measuring your blood
glucose level.
•ereceiverBEEPS TWICE (only
if Progress Tones are turned on).
e test is done. Go to Step 7.
•Yourbloodglucoseresultsappear
in the display (takes an average of
7 seconds).
•ereceiverbeepsthreetimes. e test has failed. Repeat the test.
Refer to Section 10 for error messages
and troubleshooting.
•Yougetanerrormessage.
If en
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