Hospitals Try Glucose Monitors to Reduce Contact With Covid-19 Patients

Use of wearable glucose monitors could reduce the need for nurses to enter a diabetes patient’s room several times a day to perform an older method of blood-sugar testing, via manual finger-sticks or blood draws

Hospitals are ordering electronic glucose monitors as a way to limit staff contact with the large portion of contagious Covid-19 patients who have diabetes, in an effort to curb transmission of the disease and conserve scarce protective gear such as face masks.

Doctors and medical-device companies say patients’ use of the wearable monitors in hospitals hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic could reduce the need for nurses to enter a patient’s room several times a day to perform an older method of blood-sugar testing, via manual...

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