Temporal Artery Thermometry to Detect Pediatric Fever

Ann Hudson Moore, Julie Dagenhart Carrigan, David M. Solomon and Rebecca Creech Tart

Clinical Nursing Research, 2015, vol. 24, issue 5, 556-563

Abstract: This research investigated effectiveness of temporal artery thermometry (TAT) to detect high rectal fever in children ≥91 days and ≤4 years old. Rectal temperature was initially evaluated immediately followed by TAT. As expected, the difference between mean rectal (38.05 ± .99 °C) and mean TA (37.55 ± .8 °C) temperatures in subjects ( N = 239) was significant ( p

Keywords: temporal artery thermometry; rectal thermometry; Emergency Department; pediatric patients; fever (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1177/1054773814557481

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