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Customer had sent an email stating that the glucose monitors are reading several points off from the hospital readings.When this begins to happen (after about six months of use) we end up replacing them.As recently as last week, we had a reading of 300, our local fire department had a reading of 500, and the hospital obtained a reading of 1100.This was a critical patient in diabetic ketoacidosis who required intubation.Arkray followed up with customer by phone.Verified the readings were within 20 minutes of each other.Customer stores meter and test strips together in the ambulance in a medical bag in the back of the ambulance.Meters are stored in a temperature-controlled environment of 68-72 degrees.Customer said that the incident occurred on (b)(6) 2024 at about 10:33 pm.They received a call that a patient was unresponsive.Ems arrived at the patient's home, took her glucose reading and gave her oxygen.Patient takes novolog and victoza for type 2 diabetes.She doesn't use oxygen normally but was given oxygen upon arrival at her home.Verified that customer seals the test strip bottle immediately after removing a strip.Verified they used alcohol to clean the patient's fingers, used a new sterile lancet, and they wiped away the first drop then used the second drop of blood to test.They used a fresh sample of capillary blood from the fingertip.The patient was transported to the hospital.The patient was hypotensive and was given epinephrine.The patient is still alive.Replaced meter, strips and sent return label.
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