User's Manual

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CHAPTER 3 Personal Pump
Communicator (PPC)
Introduction
The Personal Pump Communicator (PPC) has a comprehensive set of program-
ming features to control the Implantable Insulin Pump. The PPC cannot be used
by the patient until it has been initialized by the healthcare professional. This
chapter of the manual is divided in two parts:
The first part (Part 1) will describe the PPC/PUMP system initialization process
that will be performed the day prior to implant.
The second part (Part 2) will describe how to use the additional features that the
healthcare professional or patients can activate.
PPC icons
After initialization, the PPC Main Screen displays the time (12hr. or 24hr. for-
mat), month, day and a variety of icons. The type and purpose of these icons are
as follows:
Bell Icon:
Displayed when the PPC receives a telemetry message from the Pump indicating
that the Pump has detected an alarm condition, when a PPC error is detected and
when the Pump is Suspended or Stopped.
Reservoir Level Indicator Icon:
The reservoir icon is composed of 4 segments that indicate how full the Pump
reservoir is, based on the history of Pump delivery.
Insulin Delivery Icon:
The PPC simulates spinning the delivery icon when insulin delivery is in progress
by displaying alternating patterns, the pattern changes every 4 seconds. When the
Pump is delivering a bolus, the pattern will show three delivery segments. When
the Pump is delivering a basal rate, the pattern will show one delivery segment.
When the Pump is not delivering, all four segments will be displayed.