Patent ID: 7247144
Filing Date: 2007-07-24
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: placing a stimulator sleeve of a lancing device against a region of skin where nerve density is low and supply of body fluid is low, wherein the lancing device houses a first disposable that includes a lancet and a test strip; cutting an incision in the skin at the region with the lancet of the first disposable; expressing the body fluid from the incision with the stimulator sleeve; drawing the body fluid into the test strip from the surface of the skin while the stimulator sleeves remains in contact with the skin; analyzing the body fluid from the incision with the test strip of the first disposable; discarding the first disposable after said analyzing; loading a second disposable into the lancing device after said discarding the first disposable; wherein the first disposable includes a capillary passage; wherein said cutting the incision includes wherein the lancet, the test strip, and the capillary passage of the first disposable move together as a single unit during said firing and said retracting; and wherein said drawing the body fluid into the test strip includes