User guide

62 Chapter: 5
About active insulin
Active insulin is the bolus insulin that has already been delivered to your body, but has not yet been
used. The Bolus Wizard feature considers your active insulin time setting in determining any active
insulin still in your body from prior boluses. This may help prevent hypoglycemia caused by over
correcting for high blood glucose.
The Bolus Wizard feature automatically tracks active insulin
for you, based on your active insulin time, and subtracts the
appropriate amount when your blood glucose is above your target
range. The details will appear in the ESTIMATE DETAILS screen
during the bolus programming steps.
Your Paradigm pump is shipped from the factory with an
active insulin time setting of six hours, which most closely
matches the published scientific data. If your healthcare
professional prescribes a different time for you, the active insulin
time setting can be adjusted in one-hour increments from two to
eight hours.
You can always choose to override the suggested Bolus Wizard feature estimate and manually enter
a different amount.
For more details about active insulin, see “Bolus Wizard feature specifications” on page 146.
How to program the Bolus Wizard feature
You need your personal settings from the Bolus Wizard feature settings table to setup the Bolus
Wizard feature. Your Bolus Wizard feature settings are programmed in the EDIT SETTINGS screen.
Main > Bolus > Bolus Wizard Setup > Edit Settings
Once the settings are programmed, you do not have to program them again unless the values
change. After you program one setting, the screen will automatically go to the next required setting.
After you program all your settings, review them as described in this section to make sure they are set
correctly.
Instructions for programming the Bolus Wizard feature settings are given below. Program your
settings in the order described to make sure you program all the settings.
(values shown are
for example only)
If there is no
active insulin,
this will show
“N/A”
ESTIMATE DETAILS
Est total:
Food intake:
(Meter) BG:
Food:
Correction:
Active Ins:
ACT to proceed,
ESC to back up
4.0U
45gr
160
3.0U
2.0U
1.0U