• hypotension
• hypoglycaemia

Capillary blood glucose evaluation is routinely performed on patients presenting to the accident and emergency department. However, the limitations of this test are not widely known. We recently cared for a shocked patient who was hypoglycaemic (capillary glucose 1.3 mmol/l, venous laboratory glucose 2.3 mmol/l) on presentation. He was treated with repeated boluses of intravenous glucose and a single dose of …