Clinical Evaluation of the Accu-Chek Advantage Blood Glucose Monitoring System

Monitoring neonatal hypoglycemia with the Accu-chek advantage II glucose meter: the cautionary tale of galactosemia.

To the Editor: Hand-held glucose meters are a practical solution for measuring glucose in neonatal intensive care units and special care nurseries because of their portability, the immediacy of results, and minimal blood volume requirements compared with dispatching samples for central laboratory analysis. We have used the Roche Accu-chek Advantage II meter for some time in our neonatal intensi...

Toxic levels of acetaminophen produce a major positive interference on Glucometer Elite and Accu-chek Advantage glucose meters.

ied this possibility by performing the enzymatic assay on controls containing increasing concentrations of ACET in the presence of different therapeutic concentrations of NAC (Fig. 1A). Evidently, NAC concentrations $100 mg/L cause a marked negative bias, reaching total suppression of the reaction in the presence of 10 g/L NAC. In contrast, similar concentrations of NAC have no effect on the AC...

Venous and capillary whole blood glucose from the fingertip D. Type of Test: Quantitative amperometric assay, glucose dehydrogenase (mutant GDH-PQQ) E. Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Corporation F. Proprietary and Established Names: ACCU-CHEK Performa Blood Glucose Monitoring System

Evaluation of the FreeStyle Lite Blood Glucose Monitoring System

Method: Clinical accuracy for fingertip capillary blood testing was assessed at three diabetes clinics with three lots of FreeStyle Lite test strips. At the same clinics, lay user performance and alternative site testing (on forearm, upper arm, palm thenar, palm hypothenar, back of the hand, calf and thigh) were also evaluated. FreeStyle Lite system results in these studies were compared to the...

Assessment of three frequently used blood glucose monitoring devices in clinical routine.

BACKGROUND Self-monitoring of blood glucose plays an important role in the management of diabetes and has been shown to improve metabolic control. The use of blood glucose meters in clinical practice requires sufficient reliability to allow adequate treatment. Direct comparison of different blood glucose meters in clinical practice, independent of the manufactures is scarce. We, therefore, aime...