Creating A Management And Treatment Plan; Determine Your Goals - Dexcom G5 mobile User Manual

Creating a Management and Treatment Plan

When deciding on your management plan and how to use your Dexcom G5 Mobile CGM
System to make treatment decisions, talk with your healthcare professional. Your diabetes
management and treatment decision plan is based on many factors:
• Your target glucose goals
• Using Dexcom G5 Mobile CGM System information in treatment decisions
• How to treat or prevent lows
• How to treat and prevent highs
• Preventing stacking insulin
The next section provides a closer look at what to talk about with your
healthcare professional.

Determine Your Goals

Working with your healthcare professional and determine your target glucose range.
• Setting target glucose ranges helps in planning your treatment decisions
• Target glucose range impacts your response to current glucose reading
• Responses may vary throughout the day as your situation changes
Treatment Decisions
Your healthcare professional can guide you in correctly using your Dexcom G5 Mobile CGM
System information when making treatment decisions.
• Make sure you are getting the full picture. Never use your Dexcom G5 Mobile CGM
System for treatment decisions if in the last 15 minutes you do not have three
consecutive sensor glucose readings on the trend graph, or you are missing a trend
arrow. See Section12.3 for more information
• Your healthcare professional can help you determine what actions to take with the
different trend arrows, in particular the rapidly rising or falling trend arrows. Your
first thought after seeing double arrows may be to take immediate action, however,
depending on your most recent activity or meals, sometimes the best thing to do is just
watch and wait
• Discuss different scenarios with your healthcare professional including when it may be
best for you to take more insulin, or eat a fast acting carbohydrate, or do nothing except
be patient and watch and wait
• Learn how to be proactive and not reactive. It is always better to prevent a low or
high glucose episode. You do not want to panic and overact to your sensor glucose
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