Patient contacted dexcom on (b)(6) 2016 to report a hypoglycemic event that occurred on (b)(6) 2016.The sensor was inserted on (b)(6) 2016.Patient stated that they had severe low blood glucose (bg) on sunday morning, (b)(6) 2016.Patient had a seizure, went into a coma and almost died.Patient's wife performed rescue breathing and gave the patient 8 glucagon tablets.The ambulance was called and patient was taken to the emergency room (er) at approximately 1:00am.Patient was given d50 via iv and hydrocodone for pain relief.Patient was released from the er the same day at 12:00pm.Patient was wearing his dexcom continuous glucose monitor (cgm) at the time of the incident.Patient stated that the dexcom (cgm) never alerted to the low bg, as it displayed that the patient was at 74-79mg/dl.Paramedics read the patient's bg at 22mg/dl.Additionally, patient also reported experiencing an inaccurate cgm value of 103mg/dl compared to bg meter value of 50mg/dl.No additional event or patient information was provided.
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