User manual

STAFF RESPONSIBILITIES
It is essential that staff undergo formal training and understand the
importance of a strict quality control programme. Use of meters by
untrained staff can adversely affect the treatment of patients.
IMPORTANT: A management or therapeutic decision based
on an unreliable blood glucose result could be fatal.
Recommendations
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All staff who perform blood glucose measurements
must be properly trained to use the equipment
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Untrained or insufficiently trained staff should not
use a blood glucose meter
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Quality control (QC) checks should form part of the maintenance
routine, with the biochemistry department directly involved
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Quality control procedures should aim particularly at maintaining
the competence of all equipment users and ensuring the reliability
of the results being obtained
In the event of an adverse incident
It is the responsibility of anyone operating a blood glucose meter
to implement the following measures following an adverse incident:
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Report incident to Clinical Advisor, Manager,
DNS or Biochemistry team
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Quarantine:
Meter, test strips, QC solution and log book
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Record details of:
Meter serial number, code number of strips and lot number of QC
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Inform the local Roche Diagnostics representative or
Nurse Educator
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MHRA or IMB may need to be informed
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1. Blood Glucose Measurements: Reliability of results produced in extra-laboratory
areas. Department of Health (HN Hazard 87 13)