User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of contents
- Glossary
- Before you begin...
- The basics...
- Basic programming
- Starting on insulin
- Using Bolus Wizard
- Optimizing pump therapy
- Insulin pump therapy follow-up
- Utilities
- Troubleshooting and alarms
- Troubleshooting
- My pump has a no delivery alarm...
- What happens if I leave the battery out too long?
- Why doesn’t my pump battery last very long?
- What is a CHECK SETTINGS alarm?
- My screen appears distorted...
- I can’t get out of the priming loop...
- The pump is asking me to rewind...
- My bolus stopped...
- My pump buttons are not acting right during a bolus...
- My pump won’t display my BG reading from my meter...
- I dropped my pump
- I submerged my pump in water
- Alarms
- Alarm conditions
- Troubleshooting
- Pump maintenance
- User safety
- Pump specifications
- Alarms and error messages
- Alarm history
- Backlight
- Basal
- BG target
- Bolus delivery
- Bolus history
- Bolus units
- Bolus Wizard
- Carb ratios
- Carb units
- Daily totals
- Default screen
- Delivery accuracy
- Drive motor
- Dual Wave bolus
- Easy bolus
- Infusion pressure
- (insulin) sensitivity
- Insulin type
- Low resv (reservoir) warning
- Meter value
- Normal bolus
- Occlusion detection
- Percent temp basal
- Power supply
- Prime function
- Prime history
- Program safety checks
- Pump size
- Pump weight
- Remote control
- Reservoir
- Square Wave bolus
- Status screen
- Temporary (temp) basal rate
- Time and date screen
- Water tight
- Bolus Wizard specifications
- Default settings
- Icon table
- Menu map
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NOTE - The pump will beep/vibrate at the start of the bolus.
When the bolus is finished, the pump will beep/vibrate again
and the HOME screen will appear.
Example #1
Normal meal bolus using the exchange system
Normal bolus can be used to cover the carbohydrate in a meal or snack and to correct a blood glucose that is
higher than the target that was chosen for you.
Fred has been taught that he needs to take 1 unit of insulin for every carbohydrate exchange that he eats (every
milk, every starch or every fruit). For lunch today he will eat:
Turkey sandwich with two slices of bread 2 starches
1 small apple 1 fruit
1 cup of non-fat milk 1 milk
_________
Total carbohydrate exchanges = 4
Fred's lunch has a total of 4 carbohydrate exchanges so he will take a meal bolus of 4 units for his lunch.
Bolus practice:
Going through the menus, program a 2.0 unit Normal bolus now.
Check here if you were able to program it.
Using the express bolus button , program a 2.0 unit Normal bolus now.
Check here if you were able to program it.
Normal meal bolus practice using exchanges:
Choose a meal you might eat and fill in the blanks.
Food: ______________ exchange: ______________
______________ exchange: ______________
______________ exchange: ______________
total exchanges: ______________
You will take ________ units of insulin for each exchange. Your total bolus is ____________ for this meal.
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