Benefits of Continuous Glucose Monitoring

Get the Complete Picture

With up to 288 glucose readings per day, the CGMS® System Gold™ provides a level of detail about your patients' glycaemic patterns that was previously unattainable. Now you can compile and analyse comprehensive glycaemic-trend data in a logical, graphical format - increasing the depth of information on which you can base clinical decisions.

It allows you to:

• Identify glycaemic excursions
• Help educate and motivate diabetes patients
• Assess patients with data that is reliable and accurate

Glycaemic excursions

Evaluate when and how often your patients' glucose levels are out of their target range. Visual charts and graphs make it easier to spot these trends and assess their causes within the context of therapeutic regimens, food intake or daily activities.

Pinpoint specific causes of sub-optimal control, such as undetected hypo- and hyperglycaemia

Continuous monitoring allows you to uncover correctable factors hidden with occasional fingerstick testing[1] and HbA1C values.

Evaluate when and how often your patients' glucose levels are out of their target range. Visual charts and graphs make it easier to spot these trends and assess their causes within the context of therapeutic regimens, food intake or daily activities.

Understand the extent of issues

Assess the duration and magnitude of your patients' glucose levels that are above or below the target range.

Reveal dynamic relationships

Identify the interactions between meals, exercise, medication and insulin on blood glucose values. With these dynamics revealed, you can make informed decisions about adjustments to medication or insulin. You can also use these charts to help patients understand how these interactions impact their blood glucose levels.

Educate and motivate diabetes patients

• Patients can better understand the cause-and-effect relationship between daily activities and their blood glucose levels, which may have profound effects on both their self-monitoring and way of living.
  

Assess patients with data that is reliable and accurate

• Proven correlation to fingerstick measurements in a home setting[3].
  
• Proven to accurately follow rapid hyper- and hypoglycaemic glucose excursions[4].

Why is continuous glucose monitoring important?
Until recently, HbA1c and fingerstick 'diaries' were the only way for people with diabetes and their healthcare team to assess glycaemic control. Sometimes however, information from HbA1c and fingerstick tests is just not enough to adjust treatment effectively. When deeper insight into glycaemic patterns is needed, continuous glucose monitoring systems can help supplement HbA1c and fingerstick values providing a complete picture of a patient metabolic state.