title: [Measurement of the ear temperature at a department of surgery].
abstract: Tympanic measurement of body temperature with FirstTemp tympanic thermometer was compared with mercury rectal thermometers in 155 adult patients in a department of abdominal surgery. The tympanic thermometer did not correlate well with the mercury rectal thermometer with a correlation coefficient of 0.70. The median rectal temperature differed from the median tympanic temperature by 0.34 degree C, a factor which could be corrected by changing the temperature shown on the display from the "oral" mode into the 0.40 degree C higher rectal "mode". Care should be taken not to measure the temperature in an ear, on which the patient has been lying recently.
authors.affiliation: Organkirurgisk afdeling, Sundby Hospital, København.
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Gimbel
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Philipsen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001831:Body Temperature; D003718:Denmark; D005767:Gastrointestinal Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012007:Rectum; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital; D013821:Thermometers / Q000592:standards; D014432:Tympanic Membrane
vernacular_title: Oretemperaturmåling på en kirurgisk afdeling.