CGMS® System Gold™: Continuous Glucose Monitoring System Overview

Healthcare professionals prescribe the CGMS System Gold for their diabetes patients because it can give them a clearer picture of blood glucose levelsthroughout the day. The CGMS system fills in the gaps left by fingersticks and can reveal hidden patterns, like frequent episodes of hypoglycaemia (low blood sugars).

The sensor system provides an average blood sugar measurement every 5 minutes, for up to 3 days at a time. That's 288 readings a day - up to 864 readings in 72 hours. At the end of your test period, you return to your healthcare professional with the CGMS sensor and monitor so you can go over the data the system has collected.
You will have access to comprehensive glycaemic-trend data in a logical, graphical format - increasing the depth of information on which you and your healthcare team can base clinical decisions.

A more complete picture

For the first time, you and your physician can see what happens between fingersticks - giving you a more complete picture of your glucose profile.


Left: Fingerstick test values indicate patient is near or within target range.
Right: CGMS® System Gold™ reveals high and lows not caught by fingersticks.

Fingersticks measurement represent just a few minutes of the day

Fingersticks are important - you've got to know what your blood glucose level is. But even frequent testing may not allow you to see what's really going on with your blood sugars 24-hours a day.

Fingerstick measurements are taken at points in time. They cannot indicate the direction or trend of blood sugar levels. So even the most motivated diabetes patients performing frequent tests may miss reoccurring highs or lows, particularly at night.