Comparison of infrared ear thermometer derived and equilibrated rectal temperatures in estimating pulmonary artery temperatures

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1501-1506

  Rotello, Leo C ^a   Crawford, Lisa ^a   Terndrup, Thomas E ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

apparatus; body temperature; critical illness; fever; infrared thermometry; monitoring

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORE TEMPERATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFRARED EAR THERMOMETER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TECHNICAL AID; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOMETRY;

EID: 0029788929     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199609000-00012     Document Type: Article

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