[Simultaneous monitoring of skin, sublingual, esophageal and rectal temperature of intubated patients in an air conditioned operating room. A comparison of methods].
The body temperature of 36 patients of ages 20-83 years, who were undergoing abdominal and extra-abdominal surgery, was measured oesophageally, sublingually, rectally and on the skin during a period of 2 h. The question behind this was: how far can the changes in deep body temperature (represented by the oesophageal temperature) be assessed by methods other than those applied oesophageally. The body temperature sank statistically distinctly, continually and, depending on the chosen method of measuring, by an average of 1.12 degrees C (oesophageal and rectal), 0.99 degrees C (sublingual) and 0.78 degrees C (skin) respectively. The sublingual temperature proved to be the best assessor of deep body temperature. With its help, 91.6% of the variance of oesophageal temperature in the mean was explainable.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001831:Body Temperature; D004947:Esophagus; D006801:Humans; D007432:Intraoperative Period; D007442:Intubation, Intratracheal; D008875:Middle Aged; D009060:Mouth Floor; D012007:Rectum; D012881:Skin Temperature; D013817:Thermography / Q000379:methods*; D013997:Time Factors
Simultane Erfassung von Haut-, Sublingual-, Oesophageal- und Rectaltemperatur bei intubierten Patienten im klimatisierten  Operationssaal. Ein Methodenvergleich.