The utility of tympanic versus oral temperature measurements of firefighters in emergency incident rehabilitation operations

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 363-367

  Dickinson, Edward T ^a   Bevilacqua, John J ^b   Hill, Jessica D ^a   Sites, Frank D ^a   Wurster, Fred W ^a   Mechem, C Crawford ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Midway Fire Department   (United States)

^c Philadelphia Fire Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency incident rehabilitation; Firefighters; Tympanic temperature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BREATHING APPARATUS; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EARDRUM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FIRE FIGHTER; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEAT; HELMET; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MASK; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MOUTH; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SCREENING TEST; SMOKE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMOGRAPHY; TRAINING;

EID: 0038161055     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120390936572     Document Type: Article

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