Chapter 7 - Ending Your Sensor Session And Transmitter Session; Introduction - Dexcom G5 mobile User Manual

Chapter 7
Let Us G5! The Basics:
Ending Your Sensor Session and Transmitter
Session

7.1 Introduction

Dexcom G5 Mobile Sensor Sessions last seven days. This chapter reviews what you should
expect when your session is about to expire, removing the sensor and transmitter. It also
covers how to determine if you need to end your session early.
After this chapter, you will be able to:
• Identify replace sensor prompts at the end of a seven day sensor session
• Recognize when you have to end a sensor session early
• Successfully end a sensor session early
○ Identify how you can prevent sensor session failures
• Remove your sensor pod with transmitter attached
• Separate transmitter from sensor pod
• Determine if transmitter can be used for another sensor session
To keep up with your glucose trends, it is important to begin a new sensor session as quickly
as possible. After a sensor session ends, the sensor stops taking your sensor glucose
readings. You will not get your trends, nor will you get any Alarm or Alerts.
7.2 Ending Your Sensor Session
There are different ways your session might end.
The most common is your sensor's typical seven day timeframe ended. The second is
ending the sensor session early. You may end a session early based on a personal decision,
or on rare occasions, the receiver or app detects sensor issues and prompts you to end
the session.
Let us review ending a normal session first, later in this chapter we will review the prompts
for ending the session early.
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