User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Your New OmniPod Insulin Management System
- Getting Started
- The OmniPod Starter Kit
- Set Up the Personal Diabetes Manager (PDM)
- The Setup Wizard
- Enter your PDM ID
- Select the ID screen color
- Set date and time
- Enter basal settings
- Enter blood glucose sound setting and BG goal
- Set the suggested bolus calculator
- Enter target blood glucose value
- Enter minimum BG allowed for use in bolus calculation
- Enter insulin-to-carbohydrate ratio
- Enter correction factor
- Set reverse correction
- Enter the duration of insulin action
- Select bolus increment and enter maximum bolus
- Set extended bolus doses
- Set low reservoir advisory
- Set expiration notification
- Understanding and Adjusting Basal Rates
- Understanding and Delivering Bolus Doses
- Using the Personal Diabetes Manager
- Checking Your Blood Glucose
- The Built-in FreeStyle® Blood Glucose Meter
- The FreeStyle® Blood Glucose Test Strips
- The FreeStyle® Control Solution
- Performing a Control Solution Test
- Performing a Blood Glucose Reading
- Blood Glucose Results and the Suggested Bolus Calculator
- Entering Blood Glucose Readings Manually
- Editing Tags
- Low and High Blood Glucose Readings
- Important Health-Related Information
- Understanding Your Records
- Living with Diabetes
- Alerts and Alarms
- Communication Failures
- Appendix
- Pod Care and Maintenance
- Personal Diabetes Manager Care and Maintenance
- Storage and Supplies
- Suggested Bolus Calculator Examples and Guidelines
- OmniPod System Options and Settings
- Pod Specifications
- Accuracy Test Results
- Personal Diabetes Manager Specifications
- Blood Glucose Meter Specifications
- OmniPod System Label Symbols
- Personal Diabetes Manager Icons
- OmniPod System Notice Concerning Interference
- Electromagnetic Compatibility
- Customer Bill of Rights
- Limited Warranty for the Personal Diabetes Manager
- HIPAA Privacy Notice
- Glossary
- Index
Contents
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Enter the duration of insulin action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
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ect bolus increment and enter maximum bolus. . . . . . . . . . 14
Set extended bolus doses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Set low reservoir advisory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Set expiration notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3 Understanding and Adjusting Basal Rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
What Is a Basal Rate? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Personalized Basal Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Create a basal program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Enable an existing basal program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Change, rename, copy, or delete a basal program . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Temporary Basal Rates and Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
What is a temporary basal rate? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Enable a one-time temporary basal rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Cancel a one-time temporary basal rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Create a temporary basal preset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Enable an existing temporary basal preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Cancel an active temporary basal preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Change, rename, or delete a temporary basal preset . . . . . . . . 26
Maximum Basal Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
What is the maximum basal rate?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Change the maximum basal rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
4 Understanding and Delivering Bolus Doses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
What Is a Bolus? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Bolus Dose Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Suggested Bolus Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
How a suggested bolus is calculated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Deliver a Normal Bolus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Deliver a bolus when suggested bolus calculator is On. . . . . . 31
Deliver a bolus manually (suggested bolus calc is Off). . . . . . . 33
Deliver an Extended Bolus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Deliver an extended bolus instead of a normal bolus. . . . . . . . . . . 34
Cancel Active Boluses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Replace an Extended Bolus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Bolus Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Create a bolus preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Enable an existing bolus preset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Change, rename, or delete a bolus preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Cancel an active bolus preset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Carb Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Create a carb preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Change or edit a carb preset. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Delete a carb preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Reference Food Library. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Access the reference food library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
5 Using the Pod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
The Pod Change Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Gather equipment and supplies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Deactivate the current Pod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Fill a new Pod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Select the infusion site. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Apply the new Pod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Insert cannula and begin insulin delivery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Check Pod Status. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54