title: Comparing tympanic membrane and pulmonary artery catheter temperatures.
abstract: Studies comparing tympanic membrane thermometry with other thermometry methods have had conflicting results. Our hospital's nursing practice council sponsored this tympanic thermometry study in our cardiac surgical intensive care unit to assess the feasibility of increasing tympanic thermometer use in our hospital. Our results suggest clinically significant discrepancies between tympanic membrane and pulmonary artery catheter temperatures. These discrepancies preclude expanding tympanic thermometer use in our hospital.
authors.affiliation: CSICU at St. Luke's Hospital and Health Network, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fisk
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arcona
mesh_terms: D002138:Calibration; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D002407:Catheterization, Swan-Ganz; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D013817:Thermography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014432:Tympanic Membrane