Chapter 3: Testing Your Blood Glucose; Using The Accu-Chek Fastclix Lancing Device - Roche Accu-Check Nano Manual Del Usuario

Chapter 3: Testing Your Blood glucose

Using the ACCU‑CHEK FastClix Lancing Device
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• During normal testing, any blood glucose meter or lancing device may come in contact with blood.
All parts of the kit are considered biohazardous and can potentially transmit infectious diseases
from bloodborne pathogens, even after you have performed cleaning and disinfecting.
• The meter and lancing device should never be used by more than one person. Do not share the
meter and lancing device with anyone, including family members, due to the risk of infection from
bloodborne pathogens.
• Cleaning and disinfecting the meter and lancing device destroys most, but not necessarily all,
bloodborne pathogens.
• if the meter is being operated by a second person who is providing testing assistance to the user,
the meter and lancing device should be cleaned and disinfected prior to use by the second person.
• Disinfect the meter and lancing device before allowing anyone else to handle them. Do not allow
anyone else to test with the meter or lancing device.
• it is important to keep the meter and lancing device clean and disinfected. For instructions on how
to clean and disinfect the meter and lancing device, see Chapter 5, Cleaning and Disinfecting the
Meter and Lancing Device.
• Wash hands thoroughly before and after handling the meter, lancing device, or test strips.
• You must not insert the lancet drum into the lancing device and simultaneously press the
release button or hold the lancing device with the release button resting on a surface such as a
table top. This could release a lancet and inadvertently cause injury.
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