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Temperature Monitoring

International Anesthesiology Clinics, 1996
Central temperature is usually tightly regulated in human beings. Anesthesia alters the normal thermoregulatory controls of the body. Intraoperatively, mild degrees of hypothermia may provide some cerebral protection. However, the risk of organ dysfunction and shivering require that the anesthesiologist be prepared to treat severe hypothermia ...
C C, Young, R N, Sladen
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Urine Temperature and Core Temperature

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1986
To the Editor.— In a recent article on hypothermia in the elderly, Keilson et al 1 describe a method for measuring body temperature from the temperature of freshly voided urine. After finding a poor correlation with oral temperature, they conclude that "urine temperature does not measure core temperature values." This conclusion does not appear ...
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Measuring temperature

Nursing Standard, 2008
Temperature measurement is an essential clinical skill and is recognised as being an important indicator in assessing the course of an illness. This article identifies temperature ranges and describes the procedures for taking temperature orally and via the tympanic canal in adult and paediatric patients.
Jacqueline A, Mains, Kim, Coxall, Hilary, Lloyd   +2 more
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