Glucometer Choices

Hi Gloria
We have the Abbott Precision Xceed Pro glucose meters. I do like that it is slimmer than both the Roche and the Nova meters and seems to fit better in the hand, however our end users seem to drop them regardless. I also like that the meters aren't strip lot specific, for instance, if you are running QC on multiple meters, you can use multiple lots of strips with no issue. If I remember correctly, with the Roche, all strips had to be the same lot, or the meter would make you start over. Other than that, I think most all glucometers work the same. Things I don't like about the meter: when dropped the casing cracks very easily, we replace a lot of meters that have cracks and sometimes holes in them also, the meter is not FDA approved for use on critically ill patients, because of this, we use the i-STAT in our 3 ICUs just for glucose testing.

Abbott has a meter, Freestyle Precision Pro. It does ketone as well as glucose (with a separate strip). It only connects wirelessly. There are docks but only used for firmware updates and similar. When blood gets in the sample port, you can replace just the sample port. It connects directly to both Telcor and RALS. We use it in one of our hospital systems, and there have been very few problems with it.