User guide

2 Chapter 1
Emergency kit
Keep an emergency kit with you at all times to make sure that you always have necessary supplies.
Inform a family member, co-worker, and/or friend where this emergency kit is kept. Please refer to
the “User safety” section in this chapter for more information on pump safety. Your emergency kit
should include these items:
➠ Fast-acting glucose tablets
➠ Paradigm
®
Wallet Card
➠ Blood glucose monitoring supplies ➠ Dressing and adhesive
➠ Urine ketone monitoring supplies
➠ Glucagon Emergency Kit
®
➠ Extra Paradigm infusion set and Paradigm
reservoir
➠ Extra AAA alkaline batteries (Energizer
®
brand
is recommended)
➠ Insulin syringe and fast-acting insulin (with
dosage instructions from your healthcare
professional)
CAUTION: If you give yourself insulin by using a syringe, the Bolus Wizard feature will not
be able to correctly determine the active insulin in your system.You must
generally wait at least 8 hours after an injection before relying on your Bolus
Wizard feature to calculate your active insulin. But, the length of time you need
to wait depends on your active insulin setting in the Bolus Wizard feature. See
“About active insulin” on page 60 for more information.