Guardian Technologies Glucose Monitor manual REAL-Time Glucose Readings, REAL-Time Alarms

Now available to your patients:

Continuous glucose monitoring system

with REAL-Time glucose readings and alarms

The Guardian® RT Continuous Glucose Monitoring System is the latest advance in diabetes management by Medtronic Diabetes, the 20-year pioneer of continuous glucose monitoring and insulin pump therapy. Medtronic Diabetes is the sensor expert and pioneered CGMS® System, the first FDA-approved continuous glucose monitoring system for physician use. Insights from the 3-day diagnostic system have been used by physicians in more than 150,000 patients worldwide to gain valuable insights into their glycemic control.2-4

Now Medtronic Diabetes proudly brings the benefits of continuous glucose monitoring directly to patients with the Guardian RT system. This new technology gives patients access to REAL-Time glucose readings and alarms, around the clock, so they can intervene in ways never before possible, reducing their glucose variability and achieving improved diabetes management.2-5

REAL-Time system components help your patients manage their diabetes like never before

The Guardian RT Transmitter — Communicates wirelessly through radio frequency (RF) to the Guardian RT monitor

The Guardian RT system includes a continuous glucose sensor, radiofrequency transmitter, and the Guardian RT monitor to give your patients REAL-Time glucose information around the clock

REAL-Time Glucose Readings

are viewable at the push of a button. An updated glucose value is available every five minutes — 288 times per day — at work, during mealtime, when exercising and overnight, to help patients take action before they experience a problem. You can also view previous glucose values during the last 8 hours. Awareness of glucose variability is important because even brief fluctuations in glucose levels can lead to long-term diabetes complications like eye, nerve, kidney and heart disease.6,7

REAL-Time Alarms

warn patients of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, day or night, that may not be revealed by fingersticks alone and HbA1c testing.5,6 Alarms can be preset to sound or vibrate. The sound volume of the alarms can also be adjusted to suit your patient’s unique needs. Patient response to REAL-Time alarms resulted in a significant reduction in the duration of hypoglycemic excursions.5

	Continuous Glucose Sensor provides
	REAL insights — This tiny REAL-Time sensor
REAL-Time Glucose Readings	inserts easily under the skin in a virtually
	painless process. It measures current glucose
	levels in interstitial fluid. The accuracy of
	continuous glucose monitoring is proven in
	numerous published studies.8-10Fingersticks are
REAL-Time Alarms	required prior to adjusting insulin delivery and
	when calibrating the glucose sensor.

The Guardian RT monitor shows REAL-Time information around the clock — Innovations include on-screenREAL-Time glucose readings and alarms to give patients meaningful insights into their glucose levels, enabling them to take control and improve their diabetes management.

Solutions® Software for Guardian — Using a special docking station known as the Com-Station™, you and your patients can easily download historical information from the Guardian RT system to a computer.

•Generates Customizable Treatment Reports — these reports show the effect of meals, exercise and medication on a patient’s glycemic control

•Includes Historical Trend Graphs — Up to 21 days of information are available for downloading glucose trends to make it easier for you to optimize your patient’s therapy