Creating Personal Guidelines; Your Healthcare Professional Is Your Partner - Dexcom G5 mobile User Manual

arrows, and Alarm/Alerts, you have all the information you need. No fingerstick is required to
make a treatment decision!
Make the appropriate treatment decision based on the sensor glucose reading trends and
take action. Now, upon hearing an Alarm or an Alert, instead of grabbing your meter, grab an
orange juice or insulin if needed.
Use Alarm/Alerts as your safety net and a call for action. You heard an Alarm or Alert?
Chances are you need to make a treatment decision quickly.
Your healthcare professional can help you determine where to set your Low and High Alerts.
Set optional Alert features to repeat an Alarm/Alert if you continue to be high or low over
time, or set an Alert letting you know your sensor glucose readings are rising or falling.
Turning on the Signal Loss Alert lets you know your transmitter and display device are no
longer talking with each other. When there is a signal loss, you will not get three sequential
sensor glucose readings in the last fifteen minutes, and will not be able to use your Dexcom
G5 CGM for treatment decisions.
Chapter 10 reviews all of the Alarm and Alerts, Chapter 11 shows how to customize them to
best fit your needs.
Now that you know the four Dexcom G5 CGM System keys needed to make treatment
decisions, how do you come up with a personal guidelines for your management plan?

12.4 Creating Personal Guidelines

Working closely with your healthcare professional, create a management plan using your
Dexcom G5 Mobile CGM System as the foundation of your treatment decisions.

Your Healthcare Professional is Your Partner

Your healthcare professional can assist you with determining your personal glucose
target ranges, how to reach them, help you set your Low/High Alert levels, any additional
Alerts to use, and how to best use the Dexcom G5 Mobile CGM System in your daily
diabetes management.
They are your partner in personalizing your diabetes management plan and
treatment decisions.
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