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Advanced Paramedic Skills

Learn about glucometers, patient preparation, consent, and recording readings. Understand diabetic patient signs, symptoms, and consent protocols. Details on Glucometer-Ascentia Contour and procedure steps.

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Advanced Paramedic Skills

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  1. Advanced Paramedic Skills

  2. Blood Glucose Determination • Glucometers • How they work • Preparation of the patient • Consent • Anticipate patient changes • Prepare the glucometer • Take the blood sugar • Record the reading

  3. Presentation of the Diabetic Patient? • Signs and Symptoms?? • - • - • - • - • - • - • -

  4. Consent – Needs to be Given prior to treatment • Ability to appreciate…….what? • Ability to understand……..what? • See aid to capacity • Informed via implied (implied is not just _____________)

  5. Leaving a patient on scene

  6. Glucometer-Ascentia Contour • No coding • 15 sec • Touch strip to Blood drop • See handout

  7. Glucometers • Various kinds • Home glucometers • Various components • Glucometer • Test strips • Hi/Low solutions • Lancet

  8. Test strips • Batch of them • First, orientate the glucometer to Lot number, then use entire lot • Once completed, sync glucometer to next lot number • Work by capillary action so shouldn’t need a lot of blood • Test hi and low at least once a week (Q&A) • Machine itself records all glucometer readings in internal memory (for retrieval)

  9. Procedure • Tell patient what you are doing • PPE • Insert test strip into glucometer, it counts down to ‘rdy’ or ‘ready’. Place nearby • Ideally select non-dominant hand • Swab pinky or fleshy looking finger • +/- hang hang down for a few secs • Grip finger firmly • Swab well with alcohol, let dry • Poke with lancet, dispose immediately into sharps container

  10. Procedure continued • Drop blood onto end of test strip • When it has enough blood it gives a series of dashes and counts down. • Record reading • Dispose of contaminated test strip • Bandage patient • Treat PRN

  11. Blood Glucose Determination • Lab work • Heres where you get to try it on each other

  12. Readings for You! Caroline’s • Review Diabetes and S&S –29.2-29.21 • Review Anaphylaxis S& S –30.2-30.12 • Review bronchoconstriction- 26.27-26.32-1184 • Read Pharmacology section 8.38-8.57 and 434-448 Name a few things that could be confused with hypoglycemia! What would they present like??

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