User's Manual

Dexcom G5 Mobile System User Guide
Risks and Benefits
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The following is an example of a chapter’s Safety Statement and how to read
it.
Warning
Do:
Calibrate at least once every 12 hours
Why:
Calibrating less often than every 12 hours might cause inaccurate
sensor glucose readings
Consequences:
Missing severe low (hypoglycemia ) or high
(hyperglycemia) Alarm or Alerts
Since this is a
Warning
, you know it covers important safety information.
Italics are the
Do/Don’t
steps to follow: Calibrate at least once every 12 hours .
Below the italics is a statement explaining
Why
you need to follow the steps:
Calibrating less often than every 12 hours might cause inaccurate sensor
glucose readings. And finally what happens, or the
Consequences
, if you
don’t: Missing a severe low (hypoglycemia) or high (hyperglycemia) Alarm or
Alerts.
2.4 Overview of Safety Statements
This section provides a review of Safety Statements containing the same
elements described above (type of Safety Statement, an action, a statement
of potential harm, and consequences) but listed in a narrative, not boxed,
format. Here you’ll learn what indications and contraindications are and what
to do to keep you safe and the system in proper working order.
Safety Statements are broken down into two major categories. First, general
CGM system Warnings, which review warnings and precautions you take with
most CGM systems; and second, Hardware/Software Warnings and
Precautions, which list warnings and precautions specific to the system
components.
Indications and Contraindications
Indications