G6 Pro User Guide
22Chapter 3: Risks and Benefits
Knowing Your Patient’s Trends
The G6 Pro sends a reading every 5 minutes. It also provides reports
and displays of your patient’s information so you can detect and reflect
on trends, patterns, and how your patient’s body responds to different
things, like exercise, stress, or food your patient has eaten. This
provides your patient with a more complete picture of their glucose
and lets you see how your patient’s daily habits impact their
glucose control.
Making Treatment Decisions Using G6 Pro
You can use your G6 Pro reading and trend arrow to make treatment
decisions – like treating for a low or dosing for a high. See ‘Can I make
treatment decisions with G6 Pro,’ ‘No Number, No Arrow, No CGM
Treatment Decision’ and ‘Using G6 Pro for Treatment Decisions’ for
more information. With G6 Pro there is no need to take fingersticks
to calibrate the system or for treatment decisions (as long as your
symptoms match your readings). This can reduce the pain and burden
of excessive fingersticks (Aleppo 2017) and reduce potential errors due
to inaccurate calibration.
Helping Your Patient’s Diabetes Management
The alarm/alerts features keep your patient aware of their glucose
levels. Alarm/alerts notify your patient when their glucose goes outside
their target range, goes too low, or too high. This lets your patient take
action to prevent glucose from going too low or high (Pettus 2015).
Some people perceive an increase in their quality of life and peace
of mind when using real-time CGM (Polonsky 2017). The glucose
information will provide an insight to the state of your patient’s glucose
control and the patterns you and your patient observe may help inform
better treatment decisions.
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