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
Troubleshooting and alarms/alerts
About alarms and alerts
To receive the full benefits of your Guardian REAL-Time CGM System, all parts of the system must work
properly. The system also needs to be calibrated regularly so that your sensor glucose (SG) measurements
are as close as possible to your meter blood glucose (BG) measurements.
The system is designed to tell you whenever something happens that could affect your diabetes
management. The system uses alarms and alerts that are separated into the following categories:
•Calibration
• Glucose status
• Part replacement
• Communication
The STATUS screen shows the last alarm/alert that you cleared. If there was a low battery alarm, this
condition will also display in the STATUS screen for as long as the battery works or until you change the
battery.
What to do when you get an alarm/alert
When your system generates an alarm or alert:
•
an alarm icon
or alert icon shows on the screen;
• an alarm or alert message shows on the screen; then
• the monitor changes to the HOME screen.
Alarm/alert beeps gradually get louder and louder until you clear them. If the vibrate mode is on, all
alarms/alerts start as vibrations, then change to beeps. The beeps change to a siren if you do not respond
within ten minutes, then the siren and/or vibrate repeats every one minute until the alarm/alert is
cleared.
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