User’s Guide
 Table of Contents
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Welcome
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 Intended Use
Questions? Call Customer Care
 Information
 Precision Xtra Kit Contents
 Data Management System
Getting to Know Your Monitor’s Features
 Use this button to
Turn monitor on and OFF Access monitor setup options
Access previous results and averages
Strip Port
 Use these buttons to
Turn backlight on and OFF Battery Compartment
This is where the battery is installed
Forward Button Back Button
 Set Beeper
Mode Button Forward Button Back Button
Setup Options
Buttons to Use
 Set Date, you set the year, month, and day
You may need to re-set the time and date
 Means the beeper is on Means the beeper is OFF
How to Set the Beeper Date, Time, & View Measurement Units
Release Button to Move to the next setup option
Not want to change it, Press
 1To turn your monitor ON, Press and Hold the button
 1Press and Release the button to move the hour forward
Set Time
Hour Hour flashes on and off
 Minutes Minutes flash on and off
 Year Year flashes on and off
Set Date
 Button to move the month back
Month Month flashes on and off
1Press and Release Button to move the month forward
 Day Day flashes on and off
 Choice #2 For the 24-hour format, AM or PM does not show
Choice #1
You have two choices
 Date
Choice #1 For the month- day format, shows with the date
 Blood Glucose Measurement Units
 Press and Hold the button to turn your monitor off
You have successfully set up your monitor
 Your Precision Xtra monitor Must be calibrated so that it
Why Calibrate Your Monitor?
When to Calibrate Your Monitor
Calibrating Your
 Calibrated for blood
How to Calibrate Your Monitor
What You Will Need
Calibrated for blood Glucose monitoring
 . it in until it stops
Test strips
 Ketone
Then you hear the beeper, if the beeper is on
 Try to calibrate again
Display window Test strip calibrator
Test strip foil packet
Calibration is complete
 Calibrating Your Monitor
 How to Recall LOT Number or Calibration Code
 3Press and Hold the button to turn your monitor off
 Important Information About Monitoring Your Blood Glucose
Monitoring Your Blood Glucose
Lancing device and a new, sterile lancet
 Getting Started 1Prepare your lancing device
How to Monitor Your Blood Glucose
Read the lancing Device instructions for use
 Monitoring Blood Glucose
 Monitoring Blood Glucose
 Use your lancing device to obtain a blood drop
Fingertip sampling Forearm sampling Upper arm sampling
Obtaining a Blood Drop
 Lancets and Lancing Device
 Countdown
Strip from the monitor or
Disturb the test strip during
 Important If the countdown does not start
 Shutting Off Your Monitor
 Result 300 mg/dL or Higher
Understanding Your Result
LO Result What It Means
 Test strip
HI Result What It Means
 Result What It Means
 HI shows on the display window
 You and your healthcare
Monitoring Your Blood ß-Ketone
Mmol/L
Blood glucose results
 Important Information about Monitoring Your Blood ß-Ketone
 Blood ß-Ketone
How to Monitor Your
 For more information about the Display Check
 Monitoring Blood ß-Ketone
 Important Blood ß-Ketone
Clean, dry, and warm. To
Use your lancing device to
Obtain a blood drop
 Applying the Blood Drop to the Test Strip
 You might not have applied Enough blood to the test strip
Test strip from the monitor Or disturb it during Countdown
Important If the countdown
Does not start
 2Discard the test strip properly
 When
Not controlled.2-4
 Contact your healthcare professional immediately
 There may be a problem with the test strip
 Doing a Control Solution Test
 Do not swallow the control solution
 How to Do Control Solution Testing
 2Remove the test strip from its foil packet
 Monitor turns on automatically
4Push the test strip in until it stops
 Control Solution Testing
 Glucose Ketone Status Bar Countdown
Applying Control Solution to the Test Strip
 Countdown Important If the countdown does not start
Glucose Ketone
 2Discard the test strip properly
 Your monitor and test strips are working correctly
If the control result falls within the range
 Glucose Averages
What Can Your Monitor Show You?
Memory
 How to See Results in Memory
 Blood Glucose result Memory Blood ß-Ketone result
 Glucose control Solution result Memory
 How to See Averages
 Reviewing Results
 Transferring Your Results to a Computer
 Properly
Understanding Troubleshooting Error Messages
Too hot or too
Cold for
 What It What You
 Too high to be
Problem with
Blood glucose
Result may be
 Test strip error. Monitor again Test strip is
 Monitor error
 Limitations
Specifications
Your Monitor’s
 Functions
Storage Temperature
Assay Range
Range
 System Operating Range
Data port
Monitor Operating Range
 Specifications Limitations
 You monitor your blood ß-Ketone
You think your blood glucose is low or is changing rapidly
 Store your monitor in its carrying case
Cleaning Your Monitor
Caring For Your Monitor
 Two things
Replacing Your Monitor’s Battery
 Your Monitor
 Caring for Your
 See , Setting Up Your System
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Support, Guarantee & Limited Warranty
Support
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Guarantee & Limited Warranty
 References
 PRT06986 Rev. B 8/05