Surgery – Truss – Pad
Patent
1990-03-26
1994-01-18
Shay, David M.
Surgery
Truss
Pad
128770, 128632, A61B 514
Patent
active
052792943
ABSTRACT:
Hand-held shirt-pocket portable instrument for quantitative measurement of glucose or analysis in biological fluids. The system accepts a disposable diagnostic reagent test device which has a reagent carrier and mode of identifying to the instrument the reagent lot characteristics. The instrument includes a housing structure having a visual LCD readout, a microprocessor, and photosensing circuitry which measures the change of color of the reagent carrier upon reaction in the reacting chemistry of the disposable test device. The housing also includes a spring arrangement for actuating a disposable lancet into the skin for generating blood. The disposable diagnostic reagent unit includes a configuration for transporting of the blood in the regent unit. The system includes verification and calibration sequences for the electronics, the chemistry of an unused disposable unit, the presence of a blood sample, and the ambient temperature. The system also provides for storing a plurality of analysis readings.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4637403 (1987-01-01), Garcia et al.
patent: 4787398 (1988-11-01), Garcia et al.
Anderson Paul J.
Christenson Paul E.
Jessen Ross A.
Jones Richard E.
Linde David R.
Cascade Medical, Inc.
Jaeger Hugh D.
Shay David M.
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