A 'One Day Intensive' is the tool for crisis management when you need to record a minute by minute picture of the situation.
A One Day Intensive is for tracking a crisis or emergency situation when a minute by minute log is needed.
These menu selections are particularly useful for the newly diagnosed Asthmatic to determine a good medication regime.
To keep your physician appraised during those critical first few days, after you finish a One Day Intensive (ODI) make an 'EXPORT' folder from the 'Transfer Data' menu selection, zip it up and email it to your physician for immediate viewing on his/her 'Asthma Control for Professionals'. Or even better, make use of Level Heathware's 'Internet Data Storage' feature... allowing your physician to continuously monitor your condition. You may also both view your current data at the same time, on your respective computers, and confer on the phone as you view. ...*see FAQs for more information on 'Internet Data Storage' ..
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...if you are newly diagnosed with Asthma, or are making a major medication or diet change, or your readings for
some inexplicable reason are suddenly going rock bottom low and staying there, or you suffer a severe attack or for
some other reason......your physician may instruct you to write down everything you do for a 24 hour period...even all
the little details...to try to zero in on what is happening. This is known as a 'One Day Intensive', and Asthma Control
permits you to record your One Day Intensives on the computer as they happen, for later viewing, and to have a
permanent record. The period of the intensive is up to 24 hours, then you may start a new one. The Peak Flow data
in Intensives also feeds into all the other graphs and tables and the Log of the Intensive becomes a Dairy Dot.
After a series of One Day Intensives to stabilize the
situation, the 'Line Graph with Events and Numerics'
under 'Peak Flow Levels ' menu selection may be used to
maintain level readings.
A 'One Day Intensive' is also useful for tracking an
Asthma attack. Record the antidotes you take so you may
later evaluate their effectiveness.
When a One Day Intensive (ODI) is finished its Peak Flow
Level entries also become visible on all graphs and tables,
and its Log appears as a black colored dot on Dairy Dot
lines.
For exploratory and learning purposes you may 'Start' a
One Day Intensive at any time, make a few entries,
'Continue' it later, then 'Cancel' it with no data being kept.