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Publikováno v:
PeerJ. 10:e13283
Infrared thermometry has certain advantages over traditional oral thermometry including quick, non-invasive administration and an absence of required consumables. This study compared the performance of tympanic, temporal artery and forehead contactle
Autor:
Deborah Gates, Takeya Fogle Sheperd, Omena John, Lindsey Bradley, Melinda Higgins, Victoria Horner
Publikováno v:
Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing.
Background Accurate temperature measurement in patients with cancer is critical. Many patients are neutropenic; therefore, fever represents an oncologic emergency, and, in many cases, it can be the only indication of a life-threatening infection. Alt
Autor:
Susan J. Fetzer, Alison Lawrence
Publikováno v:
Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing. 23:230-236
Reaching preoperative temperature stability is a critical discharge criterion afer anesthesia and surgery. Although numerous methods of measuring temperature exist, tympanic membrane (TM) thermometers have replaced oral thermometers in most perianest
Autor:
Sheila Elliot, Anthony J. Giuliano, E Pysznik, Susan S. Scott, D Woytowicz, Karen K. Giuliano, E MacLachlan
Publikováno v:
American Journal of Critical Care. 9:254-261
BACKGROUND: Despite increasing use of tympanic thermometers in critically ill patients who do not have a pulmonary artery catheter in place, variations in measurements obtained with the thermometers are still a problem. OBJECTIVE: To compare the rang
Autor:
Susan M. Irvin
Publikováno v:
Clinical Nurse Specialist. 13:85-89
After the use of tympanic thermometers replaced the use of oral thermometers at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Memphis, the nursing staff initiated a comparison study of the two instruments, monitoring 160 temperature readings. Current studie
Autor:
Yigang Michael Wu
Publikováno v:
SPIE Proceedings.
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, commonly known as Atypical Pneumonia in mainland China) caused 8422 people affected and resulting in 918 deaths worldwide in half year. This disease can be transmitted by respiratory droplets or by contact wit
Publikováno v:
Applied nursing research : ANR. 15(1)
Monitoring patients' temperatures is an important aspect of clinical nursing. In surgical areas, we rely on accurate temperature readings to determine appropriate therapy. Various body sites have been used for temperature measurement: oral, axillary,
Autor:
Michael McCarthy
Publikováno v:
BMJ. 349:g6555-g6555
The US nurse who cared for patients with Ebola virus disease in west Africa and is now being held in quarantine in her home in Maine said on 29 October that she would challenge her detention in court. The nurse, Kaci Hickox, was held in an isolation
Autor:
Ronnie Pittman, Rebecca Waters
Publikováno v:
Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing. 24:e18
Autor:
Yeheskel Waisman, John Grandner, Bruce L. Klein, James M. Chamberlain, Margaret Huey, Jeffrey L. Rubinoff
Publikováno v:
Clinical pediatrics. 30
We performed a clinical trial of a new tympanic thermometer to test its accuracy in a pediatric emergency department. Tympanic temperature was compared to oral or rectal glass and electronic temperature, depending on the developmental age of the chil