When were glucometers invented?

mikey40uf

Diabetes was one of the first diseases described in surviving manuscripts (1500 BC). The first glucose enzyme electrode was only developed in 1962 at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose_meter#History Feb 11 13, 11:45 AM

1nn1

By glocometer, it is presumed that this refers to machines patients can use at home to monitor blood glucose which is critical in the management of diabetes mellitus. However the development of home Gluck être came about because of the laboratory need to have automatic glucose measurement. The first automatic analyzer was used in 1957. This was the Technicon Autoanalser (AA1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose_test AutoAnalyzer is an automated analyzer using a special flow technique named "continuous flow analysis (CFA)", invented in 1957 by Leonard Skeggs, PhD and first made by the Technicon Corporation. The first applications were for clinical (medical) analysis. The AutoAnalyzer profoundly changed the character of the chemical testing laboratory by allowing significant increases in the numbers of samples that could be processed. The design based on separating a continuously flowing stream with air bubbles largely reduced slow, clumsy, and error prone manual methods of analysis. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC477117/pdf/jclinpath00096-0077.pdf Feb 11 13, 4:42 PM