4.0.0.0 Bed­side Blood Glu­cose Mon­i­tor­ing

4.1.0.0 In­di­ca­tions

In the pa­tient who is eat­ing meals, glu­cose mon­i­tor­ing should be per­formed be­fore meals. In the pa­tient who is not eat­ing, glu­cose mon­i­tor­ing is ad­vised every 4–6 h (2). More fre­quent blood glu­cose test­ing rang­ing from every 30 min to every 2 h is re­quired for pa­tients re­ceiv­ing in­tra­ve­nous in­sulin. Ob­ser­va­tion­al stud­ies have shown that safe­ty stan­dards should be es­tab­lished for blood glu­cose mon­i­tor­ing that pro­hib­it the shar­ing of finger­stick lanc­ing de­vices, lancets, and nee­dles (25).