User guide

medtronic carelink® personal software
medtronic carelink® personal software
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Medtronic CareLink® Personal
Software
Medtronic CareLink® Personal Software is designed to make it easier to track your blood glucose and
sensor glucose levels, and to compare any changes in those levels with your daily activities, such as
meals and exercise routines. Charts and graphs allow you to see the changes graphically, while tables
provide the actual numeric values.
Together, these charts, graphs and tables may help you and your healthcare provider discover patterns
and problems easier than meter software and logbooks alone. While only your healthcare provider
can alter your insulin therapy, by becoming familiar with Medtronic CareLink® Personal reports, you
too can take steps to better control your glucose levels.
Commonly Used Reports
Quick View Summary
This report shows how:
• Insulin delivery, diet and exercise patterns
aect glucose control over a 2 week period
• The chart reveals glucose ranges in a given
day and shows how often you are either
above or below your target range (i.e. outside
the green zone). The report also provides a
“snapshot” of how you are delivering your
insulin, which may be helpful in uncovering
problems
Try to determine what might be going on during
the days you are out of range. Be sure to bring this
report to the attention of your healthcare provider.
Sensor Daily Overlay by Meal
• BasedonCGM;includesmealinformation
recorded in the Medtronic CareLink®
Personal Logbook and data from the
Bolus Wizard calculator
• ShowstheeectofyourfoodonBGlevels
for up to seven days
• Revealsrepeatingpatternsand
dierences during meal periods from day
to day
• Besuretosetyourmealtimes
If you nd that your sensor glucose levels are
regularly out of your target ranges before
and/or a period after you eat, talk to your
healthcare provider about the possibility of
adjusting your insulin therapy or your insulin to
carbohydrate ratio.
Sensor Daily Overlay
• Based on CGM for up to seven days
• The seven days of glucose sensor tracings are
layered on top of each other for comparison
• Each day has a dierent colour tracing
• You can also identify specic days that you
may want to look at in more detail using a
Daily Summary report
Share any regularly repeating patterns with your
healthcare provider. Talk to him or her about what
you might be doing at those times.