Palmdoc I - How to Accurately Use AST

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Use AST only:
1. In a pre-meal or fasting state (more than
2 hours since the last meal).
2. Two hours or more after taking insulin.
3. Two hours or more after exercise.
4. During steady state blood glucose
conditions.
Do NOT use AST if:
1. You have reason to believe you have
hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia.
2. Your routine glucose results are often
uctuating.
3. You are pregnant.
How to accurately
use AST
Stimulate blood
perfusion by rubbing
the puncture site for
20 or more seconds
prior to blood
extraction. Clinical
tests demonstrate
that blood from a
site that hasn’t been
rubbed exhibits a
measurably different
glucose concentration
than blood from the
ngertip.
11. About alternative site testing (AST)