Accu-Chek Compact User manual

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BLOOD GLUCOSE MONITOR
User’s Manual
Integrated test strips
ACCU-CHEK
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Compact

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CONTENTS CONTENTS
1Introduction 6
2Inserting or replacing batteries 10
3Inserting or replacing the test strip drum 16
4Settings 26
4.1 Enabling/disabling the beep tone 28
4.2 Setting the year 30
4.3 Changing the date/time format 32
4.4 Setting the time 34
4.5 Setting the date 36
5Performing a blood glucose test 38
5.1 Using the Accu-Chek Softclix lancing device 38
5.2 Testing blood glucose 40
5.3 Testing conditions 48
6Reviewing stored blood glucose results 50
6.1 Highest value, lowest value, average 52
6.2 Downloading test results to a computer 54
7Checking, cleaning and storing your monitor 56
7. 1 Checking the monitor 56
7. 2 Cleaning the monitor 60
7. 3 Storing the monitor 65
8Technical data 66
9Problem checklist 68
10 Display messages and troubleshooting guide 70
11 Guarantee 90
12 Customer support and service 92
13 System components 94
14 Alphabetical index 98
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Display window
ON/OFF button
MEMO button
SET button
Optical system
Drum compartment release button
Drum compartment
Test strip drum
Test strip
Optical system cover*
Display cover*
Front edge of strip that draws up
the blood * available as replacement part
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Infrared data transmission window
Control window (shows the number of strips remaining)
Battery compartment
Batteries: Type AAA, LR 03, AM 4, Micro
Battery compartment cover*
Test strip guide
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* available as replacement part
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Accu-Chek Compact is a completely new type of blood glucose
monitor for people with diabetes who test their own blood
glucose regularly. We have designed it to be as easy and safe
to use as possible. You will quickly discover that Accu-Chek
Compact is a reliable blood glucose monitor that you can take
anywhere.
Operating Accu-Chek Compact is easy: there is just one button
to press. You no longer have to handle individual test strips,
as they now come conveniently loaded in a drum. Each drum
holds 17 strips and two simple steps are all it takes to insert
the drum into the monitor. Coding occurs automatically.
When you want to take a blood glucose reading, just press the
button and a test strip moves from the drum into the correct
position. Once you have completed the test, just press the
button again and the strip is ejected automatically. Your results
are stored in memory and can be transferred to your computer
if you wish.
We recommend that you use the Accu-Chek Softclix lancing
device to obtain capillary blood samples. Blood collection with
an Accu-Chek Softclix lancing device is virtually pain-free.
With Accu-Chek Compact you’ve got it all at your fingertips.
You can monitor your blood glucose quickly, simply, and with
no cumbersome preparations – anywhere, anytime.
1Introduction
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This User’s Manual gives you full details of how to operate
Accu-Chek Compact. It also tells you how to clean and look
after your monitor. At the back of the manual is a list of all
possible error messages with recommendations for trouble-
shooting.
Please read carefully all text preceded by the following
symbols:
Warning!
This warns of a situation that may pose a risk to your
health (e.g. as a result of you calculating the wrong
insulin dose).
Caution!
This symbol indicates that your monitor is at risk of being
damaged (e.g. through improper cleaning), or that there
may be a problem during testing.
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Important!
This symbol highlights important information that will
help you get the most out of your monitor.
Please take time to read this Manual and the instructions that
came with your lancing device and test strip drums. Also, when
you have a quiet moment, practise testing. To help you learn,
check the instructions and other information in this Manual
against the description of the monitor’s parts on pages 2-5.
Check that the pack contains all of the items listed. If any are
missing, please call our Diabetes Care Info-Line (for details
see Chapter 12 “Customer support and service”).
1Introduction
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Opening
the battery
compartment
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2Inserting or replacing batteries
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If the monitor is on, turn it off.
Press lightly on the lid of the battery
compartment and slide it in the direction
of the arrow . Open the battery
compartment .
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Remove any used batteries.
Insert two batteries (type AAA, LR 03, AM 4
or Micro). Make sure that the minus (-) pole
of the battery is next to the minus contact in
the battery compartment.
A new set of batteries provides enough power
to carry out a minimum of 500 blood glucose
tests. When battery power is low, the battery
symbol will appear. You can then per-
form a minimum of 50 more blood glucose
tests.
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Battery types
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2Inserting or replacing batteries
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To keep things simple, we recommend you
use up any current drum of strips before
replacing the batteries. Otherwise, it may
take the monitor a long time to advance the
first test strip from the next drum, and the
“use-by” date warning may also be lost.
(see Chapter 3).
Please take used batteries to a collection
point or to your local dealer.
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Replacing
batteries
Important
When you replace the batteries, your stored results are
retained in memory. However, you will need to re-enter
the date and time. If you fail to do so, any blood glucose
test results you obtain from this point forward will be
displayed and saved without the date and time. In this
case, the test results saved in memory will be numbered
consecutively so you can still see the order in which you
took the readings.
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Opening the
drum
compartment
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3Inserting or replacing the test strip drum
If the monitor is on, turn it off. Wait for the
motor to stop before you open the monitor.
Slide the release button on the right side
of the monitor in the direction indicated by
the arrow. The drum compartment opens.
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To exchange the drum, first tip the monitor
upright. The old drum drops out.
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3Inserting or replacing the test strip drum
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3Inserting or replacing the test strip drum
Insert the new drum.
Close the drum compartment.
The monitor automatically moves the drum to
the correct position and reads the code on the
drum.
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Closing
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compartment
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3Inserting or replacing the test strip drum
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A dot appears in the small control window on the reverse
side of the monitor. This dot indicates that you have inserted
a new, full drum containing 17 test strips. When you perform
a blood glucose test, the monitor counts the number of test
strips that have been used and displays the number of strips
remaining.
When all the strips have been used, the dot reappears in the
control window. “End” flashes in the display, indicating that
the drum is empty.
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Once you remove a drum from its container,
you have 90 days to use up all the test strips.
The monitor counts the number of days
remaining. Do not open the drum compart-
ment until all of the strips have been used.
Whenever the drum compartment is opened
and closed, or when the batteries are
replaced, the monitor thinks a new drum has
been inserted, and resets the 90-day count-
down.
If an open test strip drum is removed from the
monitor and reinstalled, the 90-day “use-by”
period displayed on the monitor ceases to
have any significance. The message “CTRL”
flashes in the display indicating that a quality
control test should be performed. Perform a
quality control test (as described in Chapter
7.1) to ensure that the strips are still usable.
The display indicating the 90-day “use-by”
period (flashing drum symbol and date) is
still invalid, however.
If you use expired test strips, you may obtain
incorrect blood glucose test results.
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Handle the test strip drums with extreme care! If the alu-
minium foil (the silver ends) on a new test strip drum has
been damaged, do not use it. If you do, your blood glu-
cose test results may be incorrect.
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You may now move to the SET menu to enable
or disable the beep tone, to set the year, date and
time, and to define the time and date format.
Press the SET button to call up the SET menu.
The field currently flashing in the menu may now
be changed.
To quit the SET menu, press the ON/OFF button.
SET menu
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When the beep tone is enabled, the monitor beeps when it
starts to test, as confirmation that the test strip has received a
sufficient amount of blood or control solution. It also beeps
each time it displays a message.
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4.1Enabling/disabling the beep tone
SET button
1. Check the monitor is off and press the SET button. The
monitor turns on without advancing a test strip from the
drum.
2. The symbol for the beep tone flashes in the display
window, and “ON” appears.
MEMO button
3. Press the MEMO button to disable the beep tone.
“OFF” appears in the display. If you press the MEMO
button again, “ON” reappears.
4. If you wish to set the year, leave the monitor turned on
and proceed to step 2 in the next section. If not, press the
ON/OFF button to turn the monitor off. The current settings
will be saved automatically.
ON/OFF button
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4.2Setting the year
1. Check the monitor is off and press the SET button. The
monitor turns on without advancing a test strip from the
drum.
2. Press the SET button repeatedly until the current year
setting flashes at top right of the display.
3. Press the MEMO button to adjust the year. The monitor
scrolls upwards through the year values. If you hold the
MEMO button down, the monitor fast-scrolls forward to
2032 and then begins again at 2000.
ON/OFF button
4. If you wish to define the date and time format, leave
the monitor turned on and proceed to step 2 in the next
section. If not, press the ON/OFF button to turn the moni-
tor off. The current settings will be saved automatically.
SET button
MEMO button
The year is not displayed during testing or
review of blood glucose test results. It is still
important, however, as February 29 in a leap
year will only be recognised when the year is
properly set. The current year setting is also
needed to unambiguously identify your blood
glucose test results if you transfer them from
your monitor’s memory to a computer.
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4.3Changing the date/time format
If you have a new monitor or you have just replaced the batter-
ies, the date will be set to 01.01.2000, and the time to 00:00
hours. The correct date and time are needed to enable you to
unambiguously identify your blood glucose test results and to
transfer them from your monitor's memory to a computer (see
Chapter 6.2).
You can choose between the standard 24-hour format (0:00 to
24:00), in which case the date format is DD.MM.YY (day fol-
lowed by month, followed by year), and the 12-hour format
(0 to 12 o’clock with a.m. or p.m.). In the latter case the date
format changes to MM.DD.YY, i.e. month, followed by day,
followed by year.
1. Check the monitor is off and press the SET button. The
monitor turns on without advancing a test strip from the
drum.
2. Press the SET button repeatedly until “24h” is displayed.
24-hour format is selected.
SET button
3. Press the MEMO button to select 12-hour format. In the
display you see “12h” and the 12-hour display is set to a.m.
4. If you wish to set the date, leave the monitor turned on
and proceed to step 2 in the next section. If not, press the
ON/OFF button to turn the monitor off. The current settings
will be saved automatically.
If you do not set the date and time, these
fields will be filled with zeroes during testing.
Your blood glucose test results saved in
memory will be numbered consecutively.
However, only blood glucose results that
are saved with the date and time will be
included in the statistical display (please
see Chapter 6.1).
ON/OFF button
MEMO button
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Caution
Important
At temperatures below minus 10°C the
batteries do not have enough power to
keep the internal clock functioning. In this
event the clock must be reset.
Instead of pressing the MEMO button
repeatedly, you can hold it down to scroll
forward quickly.
1. Check the monitor is off and press the SET button. The
monitor turns on without advancing a test strip from the
drum.
2. Press the SET button repeatedly until the hour field
flashes.
3. Press the MEMO button repeatedly to set the hour.
4. Press the SET button again. The minute field flashes.
5. Press the MEMO button repeatedly to set the minute.
6. If you wish to set the date, leave the monitor turned on
and proceed to step 2 in the next section. If not, press the
ON/OFF button to turn the monitor off. The current settings
will be saved automatically.
SET button
MEMO button
ON/OFF button
SET button
MEMO button
4.4Setting the time
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4.5Setting the date
6. Press the ON/OFF button to turn the monitor off.
The current settings will be saved automatically.
MEMO button
SET button SET button
MEMO button
ON/OFF button
1. Check the monitor is off and press the SET button. The
monitor turns on without advancing a test strip from the
drum.
2. Press the SET button repeatedly until the month field
flashes.
3. Press the MEMO button repeatedly to select the correct
month.
4. Press the SET button. The day field flashes.
5. Press the MEMO button repeatedly to select the correct
day.
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