[Diabetes-Talk] Medtronics Infusion Set & 780 Insulin Pump.

Wed May 31 22:17:20 UTC 2023

Patricia,

I question if perhaps the pump trainer just maybe did not know how to go about turning on beeps to indicate the amount of insulin being asked for before the actual delivery. Again I viewed this as a general demo and will consider more seriously come next year.

As for the automated features, If I am remembering correctly I think she said you enter the amount of carbs you are going to eat and the pump has all the ability of calculating the insulin you will need. That is not what or how she is recommending insulin is administered, but she said the pump is the most intelligent pump on the market. We did not go into how to enter carb rates on it today.

Eileen

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Eileen,
Thank you for all this updated information. That is really unfortunate that they removed the confirmation beeps as I would think that would be a good Safetynet for even sighted people. It would seem like to take full advantage of this pump when taking a bolus, it would still be best to go into the menu in the pump where the pump would factor in carbohydrate to be eaten, insulin on board and current blood sugar in terms of adjusting the recommended bolus. Inthe previous pumps, when using what was formally called the audio Bolus, not sure what they call it now, it is necessary for the user to do these calculations themselves. so I am assuming with the 780 that the user is just entering in the amount of insulin that they have chosen to administer.
I am hoping to zoom in to the presentation that Medtronic is doing tomorrow discussing the new 780 pump and see what more I can learn.
Patricia

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> On May 31, 2023, at 1:11 PM, Veronica Elsea via Diabetes-Talk <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for this update, Eileen. This was great info. Here's hoping 
> that all pumps can be used by all people, soon. The big question with 
> all of the current apps is, can you control the pump with the app? 
> Some of them you can read most of the status features. With the 
> Omnipod 5, you can control the pump with it. It would be great if that were true for the G870.
> Thanks again.
> Veronica
> 
> 
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> Eileen Scrivani via Diabetes-Talk
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> Subject: [Diabetes-Talk] Medtronics Infusion Set & 780 Insulin Pump.
> 
> Hello All,
> 
> 
> 
> I want to give an update on the Mio Advanced infusion sets as well as 
> the Medtronic 780 insulin pump that just came out a week or two ago.
> 
> 
> 
> This morning I met with a Medtronic pump trainer who adjusted my 
> current Paradigm pumps rate for properly filling the canula in the Mio Advanced
> infusion sets I was issued on my last pump supply order.   While I find the
> new design of the Mio Advanced infusion sets a tad more convoluted, it 
> is totally workable and usable for a diabetic who is totally blind. I 
> can and will continue using them with my existing pump.
> 
> 
> 
> During my time with the trainer I was shown the new Medtronic 780 
> insulin pump that came out about 2 or three weeks back. It is a 
> different layout than the current Paradigm that I am using. My current 
> pump needs to be held on its side to position the screen display on 
> top and four buttons on the bottom edge running from left to right. On 
> the new 780 model they turned it around so the pump is held  
> vertically positioning the screen on top. Under the display is a 
> circular layout of buttons with the Act/Okay button in the center and 
> arrow keys around it. There is a back-out button to the upper left  of the circle. All of these are tactile and easy to feel.
> 
> 
> 
> There is no unlocking of the screen or needing to see the screen to 
> access features. If the Medtronic pump is used with the Medtronic 
> glucose sensors the pump can be totally automated to adjust insulin 
> delivery for low and high glucose numbers. The trainer said there is 
> an app that works with the CGM &iphones but I did not get to try that 
> out. I think the name of the app is gardian something or other. If a 
> person chose not to use Medtronic CGM then you cannot use the 
> automated features of the pump and could just go with the Dexcom CGM 
> and bolis manually on your own. There also used to be a requirement of 
> calibrating twice per day with the Medtronic 770 pump, but in the 780 they removed the need to do any calibrations with the CGM.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not yet ready to upgrade to a new pump but I will look at this one 
> again come next year. The one thing I did not like is they removed the 
> audio beeps on counting back the number of units when I gave it a 
> number of presses for a bolis. It did vibrate back, but that was done 
> at the point the insulin was being delivered. So this would require 
> utmost care when pressing the button for insulin delivery. Still I 
> will keep this pump in mind and look at it more seriously come next year.
> 
> 
> 
> HTH.
> 
> 
> 
> Eileen
> 
> 
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