From start to success: Real-world tips for optimization with Omnipod® 5

Hosted by Nancy Hanna

In this special ADA 2025 edition of Beyond the Bolus, hosts Nancy Hanna and Cindy Pickering sit down with Cari Berget, RN, CDCES from the Barbara Davis Center, to unpack the newly published paper, Practical considerations for using the Omnipod 5 Automated Insulin Delivery System: Clinical experience from the United States and Europe. Drawing on years of real-world experience, Cari shares evidence-backed strategies to start patients on AID confidently, optimize settings, personalize targets, and simplify bolusing - even without perfect carb counting.

From pediatrics to older adult care, this episode is packed with actionable tips, memorable vignettes, and key takeaways to support success with Omnipod 5 across diverse patient populations.

Time stamps

2:02 – The origin and purpose of the Omnipod 5 practical guide
6:59 – Starting strong: why reassessing settings before initiation matters
17:01 – Personalizing glucose targets for safety, comfort, and control
24:00 – Smarter bolusing with Omnipod 5
37:34 – Dante’s story: a powerful vignette of a teen’s transformation with AID after years of high A1C

 

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The Omnipod 5 Automated Insulin Delivery System is a single hormone insulin delivery system intended to deliver U-100 insulin subcutaneously for the management of type 1 diabetes in persons aged 2 and older and type 2 diabetes in persons aged 18 and older. Rx only. WARNING: Do not use SmartAdjust™ technology for people under the age of 2 or who require less than 5 U of insulin per day. Visit omnipod.com/safety for complete safety information.