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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:Me sitting here wondering what practice this doctor and nurse work in to not know to check blood sugar or use a glucometer ... Some at-home glucometers can be kind of odd to use accurately compared to ones used in a hospital. If you have the person there who uses it regularly and can walk you through it so you can use it as quickly as possible, it makes perfect sense to use that person's knowledge in an emergency situation.
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:Two weeks ago I taught 30 EMT students how to use a basic glucometer you get from any retailer in less than 10 minutes. I'm not referring to the complicated hospital ones, these are literally "push test strip into hole and test blood". I would be shocked if he had something more complicated since you can't exactly slap your phone-linked continuous glucose monitors to someone else (they have a calibration period). yeah, that makes perfect sense for EMTs to know that given what they're expected to do in the field. It always depends, but presuming they're acute care they probably got trained on whatever machine their hospital uses and nothing else. I know that's how it worked for me, and I wo9uldn't feel at all comfortable using any other type because of it without someone walking me through it.
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