Use of arterial blood with bedside glucose reflectance meters in an intensive care unit: are they accurate?
Since arterial whole blood samples give higher glucose results than arterial serum, the use of arterial whole blood in combination with reflectance meters must be recommended with caution. This caution is especially advised if the glucose values obtained with arterial whole blood are used in conjunction with a sliding scale of insulin, which depends on threshold concentrations of glucose. In our hospital, use of arterial whole blood in combination with reflectance meters could have resulted in an incorrect dose of insulin in 31 of 50 patients.
Despite differing thread designs, second-generation palatal implants revealed similar bone-to-implant contact rates as did those of the first generation. Few patients presented bone resorption in the peri-implant bone.