Abstract
Objective: Analytical methods comparison for the determination of blood glucose are essential in clinical laboratory practice as it improves the quality of health care through accurate and reliable clinical decision making. Therefore, the study was done to assess the analytical performance between point-of-care glucometer named easy touch glucose monitoring system and spectrophotometer named EMP-168 biochemical analyzer for blood glucose determination in horse. Results: Twenty paired samples from horses visiting SPANA clinic of college of veterinary medicine and agriculture Addis Ababa University was used. Data obtained from both instruments was compared. The results showed that the mean value of blood glucose concentrations were higher in glucometric method (106 mg/dl) than the spectrophotometric (73 mg/dl) with the calculated t-statistic significantly different p-value of 0.000. This study showed the clinical inaccuracy of the glucometer over the spectrophotometer
Highlights
Glucose is the most abundant sugar that serves as principal source of energy for tissues except during prolonged fasting [1]
Biochem Anal Biochem, Vol 8 Iss. 4 No: 387 study aims to compare the analytical performance of glucometer over spectrophotometer for determination of glucose in horse and it was conducted from April 2019 to May 2019
A similar study in adult horses admitted on emergency basis, whole blood glucose measurements by glucometer designed for human use were poorly correlated with the biochemical analyzer [5]
Summary
Glucose is the most abundant sugar that serves as principal source of energy for tissues except during prolonged fasting [1]. Glucose can be rapidly increased as a result of the absorption from ingested food [2]. The body naturally tightly regulates blood glucose concentration as part of metabolic hemostasis [3]. In human medicine morbidity and mortality are associated with hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia [4]. Comparative examples of hypoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia are reported in veterinary medicine as illustrated in the season of diagnosis in neonatal foals [5]. It is important to have accurate methods of glucose determination to recognize glycaemia. On top of accuracy; rapid monitoring of glucose is of significant importance in glycemic control [1,6]. Point-of-care glucometers (POCG) have found a wide range of applications in medicine both for diagnostic and management of glycaemia [7]
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