Correlation, accuracy, precision and practicability of perioperative measurement of sublingual temperature in comparison with tympanic membrane temperature in awake and anaesthetised patients

European Journal of Anaesthesiology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 70-74

  Höcker, Jan ^a   Bein, Berthold ^a   Böhm, Ruwen ^a   Steinfath, Markus ^a   Scholz, Jens ^a   Horn, Ernst Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b Regio Klinikum Pinneberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Hypothermia; Intraoperative monitoring; Thermometers

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; SEVOFLURANE; SUFENTANIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH TEMPERATURE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TYMPANIC TEMPERATURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; BODY TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH FLOOR; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TYMPANIC MEMBRANE; WAKEFULNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859775391     PISSN: 02650215     EISSN: 13652346     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EJA.0b013e32834cd6de     Document Type: Article

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