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Options
Click Options in the navigation bar left to open the screen for settings that will offer you the choice among the following buttons:
Profile
Click this button to get the profile setting window. There you can click three different tabs to call in the according interaction-dialogues.
1. General
In this window you can execute various settings. In the top area you can change the blood glucose measuring unit once preset in the profile setting.
If you want to have computed your Body Mass Index (BMI), type your weight in kg and your height in m in the input fields in the bottom area. In the field right of them you will now learn your BMI and its classification (under-, excess or normal weight). It is of utmost importance that you do not take the result for absolute, as the BMI-calculation does not implicate your individual conditions for a possibly admissible divergence. If you feel that the result should be modified, please ask your physician's point of view.
The third menu inquires your sex just for statistical purposes. For the program, it is irrelevant.
2. Particulars
In the window particulars it is possible to make up or change your particulars once entered in the profile (first name, family name and e-mail address).
3. Insulin
If you did not know the name of your insulin when presetting your profile or if it has been changed, you can enter or change it in this window at any time.
Program
This button will put you to the program setting menu.
In the fields Date/Time-Format you can choose among different date and time formats for the program.
In the field backup you can set the intervals between the automatic backups that shall precautionary save your data in case of a program or computer failure. 0 means no automatic backup at all.
Set Values
This button puts you to the entering of the set values. Click the appropriate tabs to call in the different dialogues.
1. Parameter
Parameter For sure every diabetes is individual and therefore the set values of every patient are individual as well. The set values shall serve you for a guideline. For the program these set values are scale factors for classifying each of your blood glucose measurements as a hypo-, hyper- or normoglycemic one. Furthermore, you have to enter your carbohydrate factors. Carbohydrate factors help you dosing your insulin-injections; for example: in the morning my carbohydrate factor is 1,5 - eating 4 carbohydrate counting units (= 40-48 g carbohydrates) I inject 6 IU insulin.
In the line "base insulin" you will have to enter your type of L-insulin. This line has been implemented as there might exist quite extraordinary insulin-combinations.
There are four different monitoring time zones, you can define different set values, carbohydrate factors and base insulin for.
2. Hyperglycemia
You are offered the possibility to define four different time zones, up to two correction limits and up to three different correction factors. Please discuss the question of how many time zones, correction limits and correction factors will be useful for your individual diabetes with your physician.
Example:
Measurement: 1.4.2003 12:58 Uhr 9,6 mmol/l
Set value: 5 und 6 mmol/l
My correction factor: 3 mmol/l / IU
Consequently I'll inject 1 IU
3. Hypoglycemia
You are offered the possibility to define four different time zones, up to two correction limits and up to three different correction rules. Please discuss the question of how many time zones, correction limits and correction factors will be useful for your individual diabetes with your physician.
4. Pump (only if CSII-Therapy has been preset)
The tab pump is the last one of the screen for parameter entering. It has been added, as the basal rate of the pump can be individually programmed in minimum intervals of 1 hour. As many pumps offer the possibility to save two separate basal rate profiles, you will find two profiles: type A and type B.
The first and third line represent the accordant hour, whereas the second and fourth line represent the adjustable base insulin rate. Within the hour line, 1 stands for the 1st hour of the day, i.e. 0 to 1 o'clock. On the right side of this table, the insulin consumption of each profile is computed. This serves for monitoring, as the pumps dispose of the same function. Thus it is assured that all 24 values have been entered correctly.
Physician
This button puts you to the entering of the physician's particulars.
This window has been designed for establishing a database of physicians. As a diabetic you will have to consult a number of medical specialists in regular intervals. To complement this diary, you can enter the particulars of your physicians in DiabLink PC. They will be saved by the program and kept at your disposal.
How to Enter a New Physician:
Click the button "New":
- Choose a profession (top right).
- Enter Name, Address, Town, Telephone, Telefax, e-Mail and Office Hours.
- Finally click "Save" and, if you do not want to enter further physicians, confirm it by a click to "Accept" resp. "OK". This will simultaneously close the window of this option.
Post-Editing the Entry of A Physician
- Choose the physician, the particulars of whom are to be post-edited, from the list Physician (Please Choose) to have the entered fields post-edited.
- After having changed this physician's particulars, either click "Save" (if you want to post-edit other entries of physicians or enter a new one) or "OK" to close the window of this option.
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