Abbott公司推出新型床边血糖监测仪

 
一种新型床边血糖检测系统能够使用最少量的样本，提供最快速的检测。这套系统已经获得美国食品药品管理局的批准。

FreeStyle Conect系统只需要非常少量的样本（0.3毫升），这是目前所有床边血糖监测系统中所需要的最少量的样本。这套系统使用的技术是库仑检测器测量技术，这项技术能够检测几乎所有血液样本中的血糖，这就使得该技术成为检测小样本量的理想选择。FreeStyle Connect还是速度最快的床边检测系统，能够在15妙的时间内给出结果。精确性与血氧水平无关，结果不会受到非处方药物的影响，例如维生素和阿司匹林。而且系统的界面与所有床边数据控制系统一样简单。

加拿大Alberta大学实验室医学与微生物学副教授George Cembrowski说：“研究证实，FreeStyle Connect只需要少量样本就可以提供精确结果，或许能够为检测动脉和新生儿样本产生好处。除此之外，还可以节约护理时间，这在繁忙的医院中能够产生重要的效益。”

FreeStyle Connect是Abbott糖尿病检测公司(Alameda, CA, USA)的产品，该公司一直致力于研制开发降低血糖监测繁琐性和复杂性的产品。

POC Blood Glucose Monitoring
 
A new point-of-care (POC) system for measuring blood glucose uses the smallest sample size and offers the fastest test time. The system has been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The FreeStyle Connect system requires a very small sample size (0.3 ml), the smallest required by any POC blood glucose monitoring system. The system uses a technology based on coulometric measurement, a technology that measures virtually all of the available glucose in the blood sample, making it ideal for measuring a small sample size. FreeStyle Connect is also the fastest POC system, providing results within an average of 15 seconds. Accuracy is independent of blood oxygen levels and the results are not affected by common over-the-counter drugs such as vitamins and aspirin. Furthermore, the system interfaces easily with any open POC data-management system.

“Studies have demonstrated that FreeStyle Connect provides accurate results using a very small sample size that may offer advantages with challenging arterial and neonatal samples,” observed George Cembrowski, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor, laboratory medicine and pathology, University of Alberta (Canada). “In addition, it may save nursing time, which is a key benefit in a busy hospital.”

FreeStyle Connect is the product of Abbott Diabetes Care (Alameda, CA, USA), a company committed to developing products to reduce the discomfort and inconvenience of blood glucose monitoring.