Analyte monitoring system with a device for promoting bodily fluid expression from a target site

摘要

An analyte monitoring system for the determination of an analyte in a bodily fluid sample includes a housing, a meter for the determination of an analyte in a bodily fluid sample, and a device for promoting the expression of the bodily fluid sample from a target site. The device for promoting expression of bodily fluid has a pressure application mechanism for urging bodily fluid toward the target site attached to the housing. In addition, the pressure application mechanism is configured for urging the bodily fluid by sequentially increasing an area of contact and applied pressure between the pressure application mechanism and the user's body in the vicinity of the target site with the area of contact and applied pressure sequentially increasing in a direction toward the target site.