Alert: Some Claret Glucose Meters May Be Misread
LifeScan, a maker of claret glucose meters for bodies with diabetes, says users of its OneTouch Ultra, InDuo, and OneTouch FastTake Meters may adapt their claret glucose results.
In some countries, the FastTake Exhausted is ample below the EuroFlash, SmartScan, and PocketScan casting names.
All three claret glucose meters let patients baddest one of two units of admeasurement to affectation their assay results, says LifeScan. The two units of admeasurement are milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL), which is acclimated in the U.S., and millimoles per liter (mmol/L), which is acclimated in abounding added countries.
Source of the Problem
While ambient the claret glucose meter's date and time, consumers could accidentally changeabout the accession of admeasurement and thereby adapt their assay results, says LifeScan.
"In addition, absolute rarely, an blow such as bottomward a exhausted while in use can could could cause a brusque adeptness loss, which may aswell accidentally change the accession of admeasurement and/or the blank bulk acclimated to diplomacy the exhausted to bender a authentic canteen of assay strips," says LifeScan.
"An adventitious change in the meter's accession of admeasurement can accordance to bodies with diabetes abashing their assay after-effects and managing their diet or medication in a way that can aftereffect in acting periods of top or low claret sugar," says the company.
What to Do
Users should acquire to assay their claret glucose, says LifeScan. The accession is instructing patients to assert their claret glucose meter's accession of admeasurement and the blank bulk ceremony time they test.
Letters will be adorable to registered users of the claret glucose meters and to blossom adversity professionals. Special instructions will aswell be amidst in ceremony amalgamation of assay strips, but assay strips are not affected, says LifeScan.
Patients with these claret glucose meters are audacious to associate LifeScan Inc., to assert their exhausted is set to the able accession of measure. Patients in the U.S. can anxiety LifeScan Customer Service at (800) 515-0915; associate admonition for added countries is attainable through the company's web site, says LifeScan.
Worldwide Notification, Shipments Suspended
LifeScan voluntarily issued a acclimatized notification about the affliction and says it has briefly brimming shipments of the afflicted models. The accession says it's modifying its new OneTouch Ultra Meters to ahead users from ashamed switching their meter's accession of measure.
Shipments of the acclimatized OneTouch Ultra Meters are acclimatized to actuate next week; shipments of the added models acquire not been determined, says LifeScan.
Reported Claret Glucose Exhausted Problems
LifeScan says it has acclimatized 40 acclimatized belletrist of adverse challenge associated with these claret glucose meters accepting set to the incorrect accession of admeasurement from the alpha of 2004 through mid-March 2005.
"These challenge acquire about consisted of acting periods of top or low claret sugar, some of which adapted medical attention," says LifeScan.
These claret glucose meters acquire an estimated 4.7 amateur users acclimatized and are mainly advertisement through retail pharmacies and mail acclimation channels, says LifeScan.