User guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- The basics
- Entering your settings
- Basic steps
- Setting the time and date
- Selecting the language
- Setting your Alarm/Alert Type
- Entering your glucose monitoring settings
- Turning on the sensor
- Selecting the BG units
- Turning on the Glucose Alerts
- Setting the Glucose Limits
- Setting the Glucose Limits start time
- Setting the High Snooze
- Setting the Low Snooze
- Setting the Predictive glucose alert
- Setting the Rate Alerts
- AUC calculation
- Setting the Alarm Snooze
- Setting the Cal Reminder
- Entering the transmitter identification number
- Setting up the Missed Data option
- Setting the sensor glucose graph timeout
- Reviewing your settings
- Setting up your transmitter and sensor
- Meter option
- Using your system
- Utilities
- Therapy management software
- Troubleshooting and alarms/alerts
- About alarms and alerts
- What to do when you get an alarm/alert
- Sensor alerts
- Viewing your sensor alert history
- System alarms
- Viewing your system alarm history
- Understanding your transmitter, tester, and charger
- Troubleshooting the transmitter
- Troubleshooting the monitor
- My monitor will not display my BG measurement from my meter
- Reconnect old sensor
- Find lost sensor
- What happens if I leave the monitor battery out for more than ten minutes?
- Why doesn't my monitor battery last very long?
- What is a CHECK SETTINGS alarm?
- My screen looks distorted
- I dropped my monitor
- I submerged my monitor in water
- I cannot get to the User Settings screen
- System maintenance
- System specifications
- Alarm/alert types
- Alarm/alert messages and codes
- Alarm/alert history
- Backlight
- Screen and menu timeout
- Sensor glucose graph timeout
- High and low Glucose Limits (CSS7100)
- High and low Glucose Limits (CSS7100K)
- Daily totals
- Default screen
- Default settings
- ENTER BG meter values
- Meter ID entries
- Power supply
- System safety checks
- Radio frequency (RF) communication specifications
- Quality of service
- Data security
- Monitor size
- Monitor weight
- TIME/DATE SET screen
- STATUS screen
- Guidance and manufacturer's declaration
- MiniLink specifications
- Warranty
- Icon table
- Sensor accuracy
- Performance results in adults
- Accuracy of Guardian RT readings
- Precision of Guardian RT readings
- Low and High Alerts in adults
- Guardian RT Sensor Performance and Calibration Stability As a Function of Time
- Effects of calibration frequency
- Performance results in children and adolescents
- Low and High alerts in children and adolescents
- Glossary
- Index
Entering your settings
Basic steps
Perform these basic steps in the order shown.
1 Make sure that you have installed the battery in your monitor.
2 Make sure that you have the information you need to begin.
3 Set the time and date.
4 Set the alert type.
5 Enter your glucose monitoring settings.
6 Review your settings.
7 Save your settings.
8 Modify your settings as needed.
Setting the time and date
You must set the correct time and date in your monitor so that the system accurately reflects the time
and date of your reported glucose values. You must reset the time and date if you receive a CHECK
SETTINGS alarm, clear your settings, or remove the battery for more than ten minutes. You can select a 12
hour or 24 hour clock. If you do not read English, you must set the time and date using the English menus
before you can select the language. For your convenience, the English screens you use to set the time and
date are labeled in your language.
1 From the HOME screen, open the TIME/DATE SETUP screen.
MAIN MENU > Utilities > Time/Date
The TIME/DATE SETUP screen appears.
2 Select 12 Hour Setup or 24 Hour Setup. Press ACT. The TIME/DATE SET screen shows your monitor's
current time/date setting.
3
Press ACT. The SET HOUR screen appears.
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