Objective To monitor the blood glucose concentration, and then provide the scientific evidence of diagnosis and treatment for burn patients in time. Methods Using the same glucose meter to monitor the intravenous glucose and the peripheral glucose respectively for the same patient in the same time, and then compared the difference of them. The blood glucose samples were taken from 71 burn patients and 50 outpatients. Results There were significant difference between the intravenous glucose and the peripheral glucose, P