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..The Braun ITT therefore is an adequate tool to assess fever and may be used both in a clinical setting and for research purposes...

..However, its sensitivity is rather low when used in an emergency department. This means that a number of children with fever will not be diagnosed as such...

..The findings do not support use of temple temperatures to screen young infants for rectal fever > or =38.0 degrees C. Temperatures obtained by parents were comparable to those obtained by nurses...

..These findings support our previous concerns about the use of infrared ear thermometers in situations where a failure to detect fever has serious implications.

Tympanic thermometers have become a popular alternative to glass mercury thermometers for recording patients' temperatures. This article reviews studies that have been performed to audit their use in clinical practice...

..This study examined the accuracy of three other types of temperature-measurement device--disposable, digital and tympanic--when compared with standard mercury thermometer readings...

..These measurements were compared with those obtained with two ear-based thermometers, a forehead thermometer, and from the axilla (representing current practice)...

..0-0.4 degrees C range of the pulmonary artery catheter. Both the chemical and tympanic thermometers were significantly correlated with temperatures derived from the pulmonary artery catheter (r = 0.81, P < 0...

..05, paired t-test, hypothesized difference of 0). CONCLUSION: Infrared tympanic thermometry is reliable in monitoring body temperature in children who have had minor ear surgery...

..BACKGROUND: Axillary gallium-in-glass thermometers are commonly used...

..the improvements in safety, speed, and ease of use of the newer electronic, digital oral and tympanic clinical thermometers have been offset by a loss in accuracy and reliability when compared with the traditional glass/mercury oral ..

..Use of the infrared skin thermometer is a comfortable and reliable way of measurement of body temperature in newborns...

..The rectal and axillary measurements were performed using conventional mercury in glass thermometers. The aural measurement was performed using the non-contact infrared thermometer (Braun ThermoScan IRT 1020, ..

..9 degrees C. CONCLUSION: Tympanic thermometry is more accurate than measurement of temperature with an electronic axillary thermometer. It is also quick and safe, and thus it is recommended in the paediatric emergency setting...

..Once outstanding issues are addressed, the tympanic site is likely to become the gold standard for measuring temperature in children...

..By evaluating the core temperature in intensive care patients the tympanic temperature is a reliable alternative to the bladder temperature...

..There was no correlation between any sites of the NIFT and rectal thermometry. It was concluded that NIFT was not a valid alternative to rectal thermometry in cynomolgus macaques...

..In comparing the readings the nurse obtained from the two different tympanic thermometers, the mean absolute difference was 0.24 +/- 0.22 degrees C...

..ITT measurements are a reproducible and relatively noninvasive substitute for bladder or rectal measurements in febrile children...

Localized skin temperature must be measured by accurate and reliable thermometers to effectively evaluate treatment outcomes, monitor changes, and predict potential complications...

..The SensorTouch did not provide reliable values of the body temperature during periods of increasing body temperature, but the SensorTouch might work under stable conditions...

..As temporal artery and axillary provide similar accuracy, temporal artery thermometers may serve as a suitable alternative for patients in whom invasive thermometry is contraindicated.

..Regardless of specialty and region both methods were frequently used as first-choice. CONCLUSION: Our results reflect a lack of consensus on the method of first-choice in daily clinical assessment of temperature in Danish hospital wards...

..when compared with a mercury-in-glass thermometer and to investigate the waiting periods of mercury-in-glass thermometers. BACKGROUND: Although different methods of temperature measurement have been widely studied and described ..

..To identify these febrile patients with possible infection, clinicians must be attentive to elderly patients' vague clinical presentation...

..There was no direct mathematical relationship between axillary and rectal temperature. Axillary temperature should be taken in neonates as it is less hazardous; rectal temperature should be used beyond this age...

..CONCLUSION: Axillary temperatures in young children do not reliably reflect oral/rectal temperatures and should therefore be interpreted with caution...

Temperature is a vital sign which can be measured using various types of clinical thermometers. Pulmonary artery temperature is considered the 'gold standard', but this measurement is not usually clinically practical...

..The obviously known biomedical parameters allow one to locate and characterize pathology foci. The accuracy of one temperature measurement is not worse than 0.01 deg at a measurement time of about one second...

..In this study, we aimed to compare tympanic infrared thermometers with the conventional temperature option, mercury-in-glass thermometer, which is historical standard in the ..

Infrared ear thermometers (IRETs) are extensively used for measuring the temperature of a human body. For accurate measurements with IRETs they have to be calibrated regularly with an appropriate and traceable calibration system...

..0000). Infrared thermometry was better in recording the absolute temperature from any point on the eye...

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..This implicates that surgical strategy should consider the choice of the most effective viscoelastic substances, particularly in difficult cases, e.g., hard nucleus, shallow anterior chamber, primary endothelial abnormality...

..Clear-capped fluoroptic sensors can be used to accurately monitor LITT in tissue but should be shielded from ambient light...

..No significant differences were found in maximum thermal emission or KHN ratios between the LED (LEDemetron 1) and the QTH (VIP) at maximum output and similar energy densities (ANOVA/Tukey's; alpha=0.05)...

..The importance of these temperatures recorded in terms of dental materials testing and the role of material conductivity warrants further investigation...

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..Intravascular monitoring of core body temperature produces optimal measurement of porcine temperature under varying conditions of physiological stability...

..This article provides an overview of perioperative hypothermia and offers a summary of the most common methods used to measure body temperature...

..CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Among the 3 methods of temperature measurement, rectal thermometry provided the most accurate estimation of core body temperature in dogs...

..4%, 53.3%, and 58.3% in groups 1 to 3, respectively. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: The thermal sensor appeared to have potential use for initial screening of body temperature in equids at ambient temperatures > 15.6 degrees C...

By using temporal artery and rectal thermometers, we followed temperatures in 45 febrile (>38.5 degrees C) infants given an antipyretic drug...

..The single-use chemical thermometer measures oral temperature. Its accuracy must be evaluated. Infrared ear thermometers are routinely used because it is convenient and fast to use...

..The practicality and reliability of the modalities were reviewed also. According to this study, the implantable microchip transponder measurements agreed most closely with the rectal temperature...

..CONCLUSIONS: Further investigation is needed into subcutaneous implant sites and use of different infrared thermometers in this species.

..Although the mean temperatures from the transponder and tympanic thermometers were not significantly different from the rectal temperatures, only the transponder method was in close ..

..It correctly identified hypothermia in every case. CONCLUSION: ThermoSpot device is a simple accurate device allowing continuous thermal monitoring of low birth weight infants, especially in resource poor setting...

..The thermometers were weakly correlated (r=0.62). The mean difference was 0.13 degrees F (0...

..There was no significant difference between average tympanic and average oral temperatures. Therefore, this study supports the use of tympanic thermometers in addition to oral thermometers in obtaining temperatures.

..Measurements with the infrared ear thermometers and continual PAC values were recorded every six minutes...

..CONCLUSIONS: The earphone-type IRT might be used in a clinical setting for reliable and continuous core temperature monitoring during an operation...