title: Electromechanical lancing device for diabetes monitoring.
abstract: Sterility, precision and convenience for users are the important features of blood-monitoring devices. This article examines how some of the design challenges were met in a novel lancet system.
mesh_terms: D001774:Blood Chemical Analysis / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D001786:Blood Glucose / Q000032:analysis*; D001800:Blood Specimen Collection / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000097:blood* / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003936:Diagnosis, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D004866:Equipment Contamination / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D008904:Miniaturization; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D001786:Blood Glucose