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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Suspend Insulin Delivery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Res
ume Insulin Delivery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Avoid Infusion Site Infections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Get the Most From Your Pod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Avoid extreme temperatures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Water and your Pod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Safe storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6 Using the Personal Diabetes Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
The ID Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
The Status Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Insulin gauge and display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
PDM settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
The System Setup Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Reset the Date or Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Reset the time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Reset the date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Change Bolus and Basal Settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Bolus calcs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Ratios/factors/targets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Temp basal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Extended. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Bolus increment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Max bolus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Max basal rate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Alerts and Reminders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Set alerts and reminders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Change Blood Glucose Meter Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Change BG goal limits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Manage the blood glucose tags list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Change BG sound. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Customize the Personal Diabetes Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Set PDM options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Set Diagnostic Functions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Diagnostic options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Set a Reminder to Vibrate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Get the Most from Your PDM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Keep it handy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Communicating with the Pod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Water and your PDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Avoid extreme temperatures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Electrical interference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
7 Checking Your Blood Glucose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
The Built-in FreeStyle® Blood Glucose Meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
The FreeStyle® Blood Glucose Test Strips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Important test strip information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
The FreeStyle® Control Solution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
When to perform a control solution test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Check that the meter and test strips are working. . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Control solution expiration date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Ensure accurate control solution results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Out-of-range control solution results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Performing a Control Solution Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Performing a blood glucose reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Prepare the lancing device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84