Beast Day 7 OTJ Trial PMBG 58

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kbersny

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Good Morning all,

Beast is still insulin free, Yippie, I am starting believe we might just make it to the falls. :-D :-D

She will be getting a curve done at the vet on Friday. It will interesting to see their numbers. Last week when I first started home testing I took her to the vet because I thought my meter was not working properly. The reading from the vet was 122 and on my meter she was 75. That is kind of a big difference. The vet took blood from her vein and tested it with their machine (I don't know what kind they use) they also tested my meter with blood from her vain. I read that most home meters are designed to work with capillary blood and not venous blood so the reading would be off.

Does anyone know if this is true?
 
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Hi Kim, yes, you are correct about the veinous results being higher. Maybe this article will help?

Study shows venous blood tests artificially high on capillary glucometers.

  • Did you know that it matters where you get the blood sample from when you’re using a glucometer? If you did, congratulations. You understand more than I did about glucometers before I read this study that showed venous blood tests as much as 17.42 mg/Dl higher on capillary glucometers than capillary blood. Why do you care? If your agency is using standard, over-the-counter capillary glucometers, these are specifically calibrated to give accurate readings on capillary blood. The kind of blood your finger oozes when you poke it with a lancet. Not the direct venous blood that you might get off your IV needle or directly from the end of the IV catheter. Does this mean that you should stop using the IV site, or needle, or little drops of blood on your bench seat to test the patients glucose level? Not necessarily. Venous blood will still give you an accurate ballpark estimate of the patients glucose level. Just be aware that if you’re looking for a dead-on accurate blood glucose level on your diabetic or altered mentation patient, you need to do a finger stick. And know that a venous blood sample reading will most likely be an artificially high number. Now you know. - See more at: http://theemtspot.com/2009/04/16/glucom ... km4Ux.dpuf
 
Re: Beast Day 7 OTJ Trial AMBG 58

Hi guys .. wow, I don't even know if I've been to beast's condo before and yet look, day 7 on trial already! Interesting article, I never knew there was a difference from blood locations .. have a great night guys!
 
Re: Beast Day 7 OTJ Trial AMBG 58

One thing I should mention about the capillary vs veinous blood comparisons. That article mentions using a glucometer and the two blood locations will create differing results.

BUT if you compare capillary blood tested in a glucometer to blood tested in the lab machines the results will be pretty close.
 
Re: Beast Day 7 OTJ Trial AMBG 58

Go Beast! Looking good today.
:RAHCAT :RAHCAT flip_cat flip_cat dancing_cat dancing_cat
 
Re: Beast Day 7 OTJ Trial AMBG 58

Yippie kay ay!
a roll in the hay,
Beast is ecstatic
looking forward to that aquatic
stay at the falls,
where the kitty's talk with a drawl. ;-)
 

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Re: Beast Day 7 OTJ Trial AMBG 58

Happy Day "Lucky 7" to Beast!!!!!
:thumbup dancing_cat dancing_cat dancing_cat dancing_cat dancing_cat dancing_cat dancing_cat :thumbup
 
Re: Beast Day 7 OTJ Trial AMBG 58

Thank you all for the encouragement :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
 
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