User's Manual

Be Aware: Hazard and Advisory Alarms
Safety Checks
A very important safety feature of the iXL System is its ability
to check its own functions and to let you know when something
needs attention. When you turn on the remote, the system
automatically performs a series of safety checks. To make you
aware of a serious or potentially serious condition, the system
will sound an audible alarm and display an on-screen message
with instructions for resolving the alarm. All alarms include a
date and time indicating when the condition occurred. Alarm
conditions are easy to handle, and will not be a problem if you
attend to them promptly.
Check your blood glucose level frequently.
Hazard Alarms
Hazard alarms occur either when the pump is in a hazard
condition or something is wrong with the remote. Hazard alarms
are all continuous tones and each has an on-screen message
(see the “Hazard Alarms” table on the following pages). Follow
the instructions in the message to resolve the alarm situation.
If a bolus is being delivered when a hazard alarm occurs
in the pump, the bolus is cancelled. (A hazard alarm in
the remote, however, does not cancel a bolus delivery.)
Before the system displays the alarm’s on-screen
message, it tells you how much insulin was delivered
before the bolus was cancelled. That information is
stored in the system’s history records (see Chapter 7, My
Records). After you resolve the alarm, you can check the
amount of the last bolus displayed on the Status screen
to see how much of the bolus was delivered.
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