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ton, you will turn off the PDM instead.) Or, from the
Home
screen, press
Status
.
The PDM automatically checks the status of the Pod. The PDM
then displays the current reservoir volume, PDM battery level,
last blood glucose, last bolus dose, active basal program, and any
alarm conditions. See Chapter 6, Using the Personal Diabetes
Manager, for details of what you see on the
Status
screen.
If the Pod goes into hazard alarm condition and the PDM is
unable to communicate with it to turn off the alarm, you can turn
it off manually. See the end of Chapter 10, Alerts and Alarms, for
instructions.
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Suspend Insulin Delivery
Sometimes you may need to briefly stop insulin delivery (for
example, when editing an active basal program or changing the
time or date). The mylife OmniPod System lets you suspend all
insulin delivery for up to 2 hours. While in suspension, the Pod
beeps once every 15 minutes, reminding you that insulin deliv-
ery is suspended.
1. On the
Home
screen, use the
Up/Down Controller
buttons
to choose
Suspend
; then press
Select
.
2. Enter how long you want to stop all insulin delivery, from 30
minutes to 2 hours, in 30-minute increments (Figure 5-25),
then press
Enter
.
3. Press
Confirm
to confirm that you want to halt all insulin
delivery (basal and bolus). The PDM beeps and an on-screen
message lets you know that insulin delivery is indeed sus-
pended (Figure 5-26).
The Pod beeps every 15 minutes until the end of the suspen-
sion period. The
Status
screen shows INSULIN SUSPENDED
until you resume insulin delivery (see “Resume Insulin Deliv-
ery” on the next page).
4. At the end of the suspend time, a Pod
Advisory alarm
occurs
(Figure 5-27).
Once a Pod is activated and communicates with the
PDM, it can only receive commands from that PDM,
not from any other.
At any time during a suspension period, press
Resume
to resume the basal program that was running when you
suspended insulin delivery.
Extended boluses and temporary basal rates will be can-
celled when you suspend insulin delivery.
If a temporary basal or
extended bolus
is in process, the
menu item will read
Suspend/cancel
instead, and
options for cancelling these programs also appear in the
menu. If these options appear, choose
Suspend insulin
delivery
.
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