Temporary Basal Rate - Insulin Pump

Rohit — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:07:48 +0000

The insulin pump has a very nice and useful feature…the temporary basal rate.

This feature enables a person to change his/her current basal rate for a definite period of time specified by the user.

This is how it works: you select the temporary basal rate option from the basal menu. It first asks you how long you’d like the temporary basal rate.

Then it asks you to set your temporary basal rate.

Let me give you an example.

Supposing you have a sugar of, say 80 at night before sleeping. Obviously you wouldn’t want a low sugar in the middle of the night, so you use the temporary basal rate.

Let’s say your basal rate for the night is 1.40 u/H.

Now you want your basal to be 1.10 u/H for just the night from say, 12 midnight to 6 in the morning. That would be 6 hours. So you want a temporary basal of 1.10 u/H for 6 hours.

Simple. You go to the basal menu and select temporary basal rate.

The pump asks you for the time. So, here you set the time to be 6 hours.

Next the pump asks you to set your temporary basal rate. Since it asks for the percentage you do a simple math calculation.

{(1.10/1.40)*100} This gives you the percentage of your temporary basal.

In this case it would be 78%. So, you select 78% in the pump and press ACT.

Your temporary basal rate is activated. It is represented as an empty circle at the top of your pump screen.

Easy right!

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Diabetes Pump Links

Raj (Admin) — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 17:20:09 +0000

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Diabetes Pump is the latest technology innovation that helps insulin delivery for a diabetic. This apparatus is able to closely emulate the function of pancreas.

There are several websites and blogs that are dedicated to an insulin pump. I shall give you a list of such links in this article. This article will also feature links which talk about insulin pump and which I feel would be useful information.

I would also like to invite my esteemed readers to add comments regarding any links related to diabetes pump that they are aware of.

Based on their comments, I shall keep this post updated with the latest list of insulin pump links.

Insulin Pump Manufacturers

Insulin Pump Related

Insulin Pump Forums / Bulletin Boards

Insulin Pump Accessories

Insulin Nanopump Information

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