Product Info

% Insulin Remaining
Time (hours)
Active Insulin Curve
100%
90%
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70%
60%
50%
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8 Hour
7 Hour
6 Hour
5 Hour
4 Hour
3 Hour
2 Hour
Graph adapted from Mudaliar and colleagues, Diabetes Care, Volume 22,
Number 9, Sept. 1999, page 1501.
Carb ratios
Maximum ratio settings Range
8 1 to 200 grams/unit
Delivery accuracy
• For a basal rate of 1.0 U/h, the delivery accuracy is ±5%.
For a basal rate of 0.025 U/h, the delivery accuracy is ±10%.
Delivery accuracy for bolus volumes < 0.1 unit is ±20% and delivery accuracy
for bolus volumes ≥ 0.1 unit is ±5%.
• All Normal boluses are delivered within 16 minutes, 41 seconds ±3 seconds at
Standard rate (25 units, at 1.5 units per minute), and within 1 minute,
41 seconds ±3 seconds at Quick rate (25 units, at 15 units per minute).
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