Contents
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Contents
Basal and BG settings ........................................................15
Bolus Calculator settings
.....................................................17
Adding time segments
......................................................19
Other bolus settings
.........................................................20
Pod settings
..................................................................21
Activate Your First Pod
..........................................................21
User Guide
3 Changing Your Pod ....................................................23
Begin the Pod Change Process
.................................................23
Preliminary steps
.............................................................23
Prepare the PDM and deactivate the old Pod
...............................24
Fill the Syringe with Insulin
.....................................................26
Fill and Activate a Pod
..........................................................27
Select the Pod Site
..............................................................29
Prepare the Infusion Site
.......................................................29
Apply the Pod
..................................................................30
Check the Infusion Site
.........................................................32
Avoid Infusion Site Infections
..................................................33
More Information about Pod Use
..............................................34
4 Checking Your Blood Glucose ..........................................35
About Blood Glucose Testing
..................................................35
Using the Built-in BG Meter
....................................................37
Insert a test strip into the PDM
..............................................37
Test your blood glucose or control solution
.................................39
Control solution results
......................................................41
Blood glucose results
........................................................42
Using BG Meter
................................................................44
Tagging the Blood Glucose Results
............................................45
5 Delivering a Bolus of Insulin ...........................................47
Why Bolus?
.....................................................................47
Bolusing with the Bolus Calculator
.............................................47
Enter your BG and meal information
........................................47
Deliver the bolus
.............................................................48
Manually-calculated Bolus
.....................................................50
Altering an Ongoing Bolus
.....................................................51
Cancel an immediate bolus
..................................................52
Cancel an extended bolus
...................................................52
Replace an extended bolus
..................................................53