Patent ID: 7247144

Claim:
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 firing the first disposable with the lancet, the test strip, and the capillary passage towards the skin at the region, and retracting the first disposable from the skin; 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 lowering the capillary passage into contact with the body fluid on the surface of the skin after said retracting and said expressing, and transporting via capillary action the body fluid from the surface of the skin to the test strip through the capillary passage.