A pregnant woman who is 28 weeks gestation has come to the blood collection area for a two-hour oral glucose tolerance test to confirm a diagnosis of gestational diabetes. The procedure requires the collection of a fasting blood sample followed by administering a 75-gram load of glucose, administered in an orange-flavored beverage. Blood specimens will then be collected in one to two hours. The woman has finished drinking the beverage, which she had difficulty finishing, and you instruct her to sit in the waiting room until you come to get her to collect the one-hour post-glucose blood sample. After 30 minutes, she comes to tell you that she has just vomited.
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