Benefits - Dexcom G6 User Manual

Sensor Insertion Risks
It's uncommon, but inserting the sensor can cause infection, bleeding, or pain, and wearing the adhesive
patch can irritate your skin. Only a few patients in the G6 clinical studies got slight redness and swelling.
No sensor wires broke; however, there is a remote chance a sensor wire could break or detach and remain
under your skin. Sterile broken sensor wires usually don't pose a significant medical risk. If a sensor wire
breaks off or detaches and remains under your skin, contact your HCP and Technical Support (24/7):
• TechSupport@dexcom.com
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3.2 Benefits

Some benefits of using your G6 are:
• Knowing your trends
• Making treatment decisions using your G6
• Managing your diabetes
• Getting alerted for low and high readings
This section covers each of those benefits in detail.
Knowing Your Trends
The G6 sends you a reading every 5 minutes. It also provides reports and views of your information so you
can detect and reflect on trends, patterns, and how your body responds to different things, like exercise or
pizza. This provides you with a more complete picture of your glucose and lets you see how your daily habits
impact your A1C.
Making Treatment Decisions Using G6
You can use your G6 reading and trend arrow to make treatment decisions — like treating for a low or dosing
for a high. See Chapter 11 for more information on treatment decisions. With G6, there's no need to confirm
your reading with a fingerstick. This can reduce the pain and burden of excessive fingersticks (Aleppo 2017).
Helping Your Diabetes Management
The alarm/alerts features (Chapter 10) keep you aware of your glucose levels. Alarm/alerts notify you when
your glucose goes outside your target range, goes too low, or is falling too fast. This lets you take action to
prevent glucose from going too low or high (Pettus 2015). Over time, you spend more time in your target
range and less time being too high or too low (Beck 2017; Lind 2017). This gives you more control over your
glucose, may help you improve your A1C, and may reduce your risk of long-term diabetes-related
complications (The Diabetes Control and Complications Trial Research Group 1993).
Some patients gain peace of mind and a better quality of life when using real-time CGM, such as G6
(Polonsky 2017). Share may improve the quality of life and peace of mind for patients, their caregivers, and
their support team because it sends Followers readings and alarm/alerts remotely. Followers can then reach
out when readings go too low or high.
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