Dexcom G5 Mobile System User Guide
267Using the Dexcom G5 Mobile System for Treatment Decisions
You know your High Glucose Alert is set at 200 mg/dL. Your display devices show your
sensor glucose at 207 mg/dL with a single arrow going up. Not only is your glucose high, it is
also rising at around 1-2 mg/dL each minute or up 30 mg/dL in 15 minutes.
Using the information below, what treatment decision would you make?
Scenario 2
Portrait Receiver
Your Options
A. Take insulin to lower your high glucose reading based on your correction factor.
Since your trend arrow is going up, you are even thinking about taking more insulin
than your usual correction dose.
B. Watch and wait. Take no insulin. The insulin you took for your meal may still have
not reached its full effect, and you don’t want to stack insulin.
C. Eat fast-acting carbohydrates to treat your sensor glucose value and don’t take any
more insulin.
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