Idea Exchange: Share this at-home blood glucose monitoring form

January 10, 2019

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If you do a good job training your veterinary clients with diabetic pets, they can do some of their own blood glucose curve monitoring at home. Heres a printable Word doc with the basics.

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‘But I don't recommend at-home blood glucose curve monitoring!'

Dave Bruyette, DVM, DACVIM, wants you to reconsider. Read this.

My idea? At-home blood glucose curve tracking.

This is something I frequently train clients with diabetic pets how to do. What I'm finding is clients tend to get a little confused about when to check blood glucose and how long to continue the curve, so I made this take-home form (Word doc).

-Jordan Porter, RVT

Savannah Veterinary Internal Medicine

Savannah, Georgia