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11Pausing and Starting Insulin Delivery
11.1. Pausing Insulin Delivery
Sometimes you may need to pause insulin delivery briey. For example, you must
pause insulin delivery prior to editing a Basal Program in progress or changing
the time zone. e Omnipod 5 app lets you pause all insulin delivery for up to two
hours.
For the dierence between pausing insulin delivery using the pause feature or the
temp basal feature, see "Methods to temporarily pause insulin delivery in Manual
Mode" on page 254.
Before you begin
¾ You must be in Manual Mode to pause insulin. If you are currently using
Automated Mode, see "14.2. Switching from Automated Mode to Manual
Mode" on page 137.
Warning: Insulin delivery does not automatically start at the end of the
paused period. You must tap START INSULIN to start insulin delivery. If you
do not start insulin delivery, you could develop hyperglycemia.
Pause insulin delivery
To pause insulin delivery:
1. Navigate to:
Menu icon (
) > Pause Insulin
2. Tap the Pause Insulin eld. Scroll to
specify how long to pause insulin. e
paused time can last 0.5 hours, 1 hour,
1.5 hours, or 2 hours.
3. Tap PAUSE.
4. Tap YES to conrm that you want to
pause all insulin delivery.
All basal insulin delivery is paused.
e Home screen displays a yellow banner
stating that "Insulin delivery is paused."
Note: e Pod beeps every 15 minutes
throughout the paused period. At the end
of the paused period, insulin delivery does
not automatically start. e Pod and Omnipod 5 app notify you every minute for
three minutes, and repeat this notication every 15 minutes until you have started
insulin delivery.
Manual
Mode
Effective Date: 22DEC2020, PCO-000267