Testing Blood Glucose; Preparing To Test Blood Glucose; Preparing The Lancing Device - Accu-Chek Compact Plus User Manual

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Testing blood glucose

4.1

Preparing to test blood glucose

You will need the following items to carry out the test:
the meter with a test strip drum inserted
the lancing device to obtain blood
a lancet for the lancing device
Wash your hands with warm water and soap, and dry well. This
stimulates blood flow and ensures that the puncture site is clean.
4.2

Preparing the lancing device

You use the lancing device to obtain blood from a fingertip or earlobe, or
from other (alternate) sites. If you wish to obtain blood from alternate
sites (such as the base of the thumb, forearm, upper arm, calf or thigh),
you must replace the normal black cap on the lancing device with a
special, transparent AST cap (which is included in the pack or is avail-
able through the Accu-Chek Customer Care Line). Please read the
instructions for use that come with the AST cap before you use blood
from alternate sites to test blood glucose.
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Testing blood glucose
You can choose one of 11 different penetration depth settings to suit
your own skin type. You can use the lancing device either docked with
the meter, or undocked.
The lancing device has a plunger at the top (see illustration in Chapter
1.2). This plunger has three functions:
priming the lancing device
triggering the lancet to obtain blood
ejecting the used lancet
You can perform all of these functions using just one hand, as to acti-
vate a function you only have to press the plunger down.
To obtain blood you first need to insert a lancet and then set the pene-
tration depth.
Testing blood glucose
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