By passing the meter over the sensor it electronically reads the blood glucose without the need to
fingerprick.
A growing number of clinically important tests are performed using
fingerprick blood, and this is especially true in low-resource settings,' said one of the researchers, Meaghan Bond from Rice University in Houston, US.
Regarding HBGM (Table 5), 14 subjects did
fingerpricks themselves.
A blood sample on the order of 50 nL was produced by
fingerprick and collected by a micro-pipette.
You begin testing by obtaining a drop of blood from a
fingerprick.
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Lactate should either be checked on a point-of-care
fingerprick lactate meter or using venous blood (taken without a tourniquet) should be sent to the laboratory on ice.
Microvisk's SmartStrip uses sensors to work out the clotting speed of blood from a
fingerprick sample and the results are displayed on a handheld reader.
8) Among other subject matters the training covers assuring quality of HIV rapid testing, safety at the HIV rapid testing site, inventory management, quality control, blood collection and handling, documents and records, professional ethics, and blood collection by
fingerprick.
We are aiming to measure 100 proteins per
fingerprick within a year or so.
A LUNCH-HOUR
fingerprick test for suspected prostate cancer was launched today.
