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 the first meter blood glucose
You cannot enter a meter blood glucose (meter BG) measurement into your monitor until you receive a
METER BG NOW alert. If you enter a meter BG measurement before you receive this alert, it will not be
used by your system for a calibration.
Your monitor will show a METER BG NOW alert after the two-hour initialization period. This alert prompts
you to enter a meter BG reading into the monitor to calibrate the sensor. This calibration will be
successful only if the blood glucose entry is in the range of 40-400 mg/dL (2.2 to 22 mmol/L).
After you enter your first meter BG reading, you are ready to use your system. You must calibrate your
system regularly.
To enter the first meter blood glucose measurement:
1 Press ESC, then ACT to clear the METER BG NOW alert.
2 Check the sensor icon on the screen to make sure that the monitor and the transmitter are
communicating properly.
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Communicating. Go to the next step and enter your first meter BG measurement.
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Not communicating. Do not enter your first meter BG measurement. Check the following:
• The transmitter is connected correctly to the sensor.
• The sensor has been started.
• The monitor is not too far from the transmitter.
• If there is still no communication, see the Troubleshooting and alarms/alerts chapter for
information on how to restore the communication between the monitor and the transmitter.
3 Take a meter BG measurement. Immediately enter the meter BG measurement into your monitor
by following the rest of the steps in this procedure.
4 Open the ENTER BG screen.
MAIN MENU > Sensor > Enter Meter BG
The ENTER BG screen shows three dashes.
5 Enter the number from your meter (the value on the screen must match your meter measurement).
Values below 40 mg/dL (2.2 mmol/L) or above 400 mg/dL (22.2 mmol/L) cannot be used for
calibration.
6 Press ACT. The system is calibrated.
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