User's Manual

59
The Dexcom G4 PLATINUM System lets you set profiles to choose the way you want your alerts to act. This
feature is found under the Profiles option on the Main Menu. You can set your profile to the sound pattern
and volume that fits your needs.
Your profile options are:
1. Vibrate
2. Soft
3. Normal
4. Attentive
5. HypoRepeat
For each profile option, the first alert is vibration only.
Regardless of which alert profile you chose, if you confirm the first vibrate alert, you will not get a sound
alert.
When you choose your profile setting this setting applies to all alerts, alarm and prompts.
Within each profile setting, each alert has its own unique sound pattern, tone and volume level. This lets you
to easily identify each alert and alarm and its meaning.
The fixed low alarm at 55 mg/dL cannot be turned off or adjusted.
The soft, normal, attentive and HypoRepeat profiles have the following alert sequence:
• The first alert is vibrate only.
• If the alert is not confirmed in five minutes, the system vibrates and beeps.
• If the alert is not confirmed in five more minutes, the system vibrates and beeps louder. This continues
at the same volume every five minutes until confirmed.
For the HypoRepeat profile only:
• If the alert is confirmed and your sensor glucose readings continue to be at or below 55 mg/dL your
system repeats the alert sequence in 30 minutes.
Press the
SELECT
button to confirm any alert.
9.3.1 ALERT PROFILE OPTIONS
Vibrate profile: when you want to silence the receiver and be alerted by vibration. The only
exception to this is the fixed low alarm at 55 mg/dL, which alerts you as a vibration first, followed by beeps 5
minutes later if not confirmed.
Soft profile: when you need your alert to be less noticeable. This profile sets all the alerts and
alarm to lower volume beeps.