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Glucose meter
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Started this discussion. Last reply by blair4630 Nov 8.
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It should tell you something when diabetics who stick themselves multiple times a day often don't use an alcohol pad either, at most they'll wash their hands with good ol' soap & water...yet if they have infection issues in an extremity, it usuall...
Joshua, the reason is that a purely venous blood sugar differes significantly, often by up to plus or minus 20mg/dl. In addition, unless you actualy perform the blood sugar from blood seeping out of the catheter hub, you're not getting an accurate...
Unless I am mistaken it has nothing to do with the calibration. The blood glucose levels of venous blood differ from capillary blood for the same reason that an axillary temperature differs from a rectal one. Its not that the thermometer is calibr...
See the 4Q'04 and 3Q'01 issues of Prehospital Emergency Care for research on this subject. Bottom line: capillary blood glucose samples probably will differ from venous ones, sometimes significantly.
There shouldn't be difference between a venous and capillary measurement in glucometers. When inserting IVs during my nursing ED shifts we often take the sample from a drop of blood onto the dressing pack sheet.
You don't need an iStat.
If you a...
I would go with the opposite arm. The BG in that arm will better represent BG in the going to the brain.
Uri, according to our hospital protocols, unless the monitor is calibrated or ment for use with both venous glucose and capillary glucose, like the Accucheck-PDA Styled Ones, then you have to take a capillary BGL sample. The reason is that glucose...
Regarding Question 1 - I think that the JEMS Magazine had an article (or notice) about this a while back.
If the Glucometer that you use is calibrated for Capillary blood then you will likely get a higher reading from Venous blood.
See the follo...
I've gotten a different answers from different local paramedics, so I'd like to hear some more opinions.
1. We sometimes check glucose levels with a glucose meter when we attach an IV. Should I expect a difference in glucose levels in venous blood...
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