Roche ACCU-CHEK Inform II User Guide

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Staff Responsibilities
Department of Health Hazard Notice
The Department of Health issued a Hazard Notice in 1987 (repeated in
a 1996 Safety Notice) highlighting the need for formal staff training and
a strict quality control programme.
Summary
Use of blood glucose meters by untrained staff, without adequate
management supervision of the equipment and without the use of
quality control procedures, can lead to misleading results, adversely
affecting the treatment of patients
1.
• A management or therapeutic decision based on an
unreliable blood glucose result could be fatal.
• Getting it right first time is important.
Recommendations
• All staff who perform blood glucose measurements must be
properly trained to use the equipment.
• Untrained or insufficiently trained staff should not use a blood
glucose meter.
• Quality control checks should form part of the maintenance
routine, with the pathology laboratory directly involved.
• Quality control procedures should aim particularly at maintaining
the competence of all equipment users and ensuring the
reliability of the blood glucose results being obtained.
As you can see from the recommendations contained within the
Department of Health Hazard Notice, it is vitally important that you
are properly trained to use the blood glucose measuring equipment.
If you are in any doubt, please contact your supervisor before using
the equipment.
Remember - an incorrect result could lead to serious
consequences for the patient in your care.
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SOURCE: BLOOD GLUCOSE MEASUREMENTS: RELIABILITY OF RESULTS PRODUCED IN
EXTRA-LABORATORY AREAS. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (HN (HAZARD) (87) 13)
User Guide

Roche ACCU-CHEK Inform II Specifications

General

Brand	Roche
Model	ACCU-CHEK Inform II
Category	Blood Glucose Meter
Language	English