Understanding and Adjusting Basal Rates
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You can set a temporary basal rate for a duration of 30 minutes to
12 hours. Once the time limit is reached, the Pod automatically
returns to the active basal program. Pod and PDM do not
need to be close to each other.
When using units per hour, the OmniPod System allows you to
set temporary basal rates from 0.0 U/hr, up to your max basal
rate. When using percent rate, you can set temporary basal rates
from Off to +95% of your active rate, as long as the temporary
rate is less than or equal to your max basal rate.
Another limit on
the temp basal rate when configured in % is that the rate
cannot be decreased such that the resultant flow rate will be
less than 0.05U/hr. Example – if flow rate is 0.10U/hr, you
can’t create a temp basal of -60%.
See the sections below on creating, enabling, cancelling, and
changing temporary basal presets.
Enable a one-time temporary basal rate
1. On the
Home
screen, use the
Up/Down Controller
buttons
to choose
Temp basal
, then press
Select
.
2. If you have created temp basal presets, choose
[enter manu-
ally]
from the list, then press
Select
.
If you have not created any temp basal presets, the PDM skips
this step.
3. Enter the temporary basal rate in either units per hour (Figure
3-11) or percent change (Figure 3-12), depending on how
you choose to show the rates, then press
Enter
.
4. Enter the duration for the temporary rate, then press
Enter
.
5. Press
Confirm
to start the temporary basal rate shown on the
screen. The Pod beeps to indicate that the temporary basal
rate is running.
During initial setup, you and your healthcare provider
either turned
Off
temporary basal rates, or chose to
show the rates as
%
or
U/hr
. To change this setting, see
Chapter 6, Using the Personal Diabetes Manager.
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