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Body Temperature
This document discusses body temperature measurement. It describes the purposes of measuring body temperature as detecting fever, hypothermia, or hyperthermia. It also notes additional purposes like monitoring medicine effectiveness and planning pregnancy. The document outlines normal temperature ranges and describes common sites and types of thermometers for taking measurements, including mercury/glass, electronic/digital, chemical strips, infrared, and temporal artery thermometers. It provides steps for properly taking temperature with an infrared ear thermometer.
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Body Temperature
- 2. PURPOSE • Detect fever. •Detect abnormally low body temperature (hypothermia) in people who have been exposed to cold. • Detect abnormally high body temperature ( hyperthermia) in people who have been exposed to heat. • Help monitor the effectiveness of a fever- reducing medicine. • Help plan for pregnancy by determining if a woman is ovulating
- 4. Celcius = °C TEMPERATURESCALE Is measured in
- 5. 36°C – 37.2°C NORMAL TEMPERATURE Is
- 16. THE MOST COMMONSITES OF MEASURING BODY TEMPERATURE
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- 18. MERCURY GLASS /PLASTIC THERMOMETER
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- 20. CHEMICAL DISPOSABLE THERMOMETER / TEMPERATURESENSITIVE TAPE
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- 25. PRE PROCEDURE • Greetand explain procedure to the patient
- 26. PRE PROCEDURE • Provideprivacy and perform hand hygiene
- 27. PRE PROCEDURE • Applyear probe cover to thermoscan probe
- 28. PRE PROCEDURE • Ensurethe reading in degree Celcius
- 29. PRE PROCEDURE • Informpatient to pull pinna, pull pinna backward and downward and insert thermoscan probe into ear cannal
- 30. PRE PROCEDURE • Press‘START’ button until heard ‘beep’ sound
- 31. PRE PROCEDURE • Removeprobe from ear and inform patient reading
- 32. PRE PROCEDURE • Removeear probe cover and discard appropraitely
- 34. POST PROCEDURE • Performhand hygiene
- 35. POST PROCEDURE • InformSRN or doctor abnormal result
- 36. POST PROCEDURE • Documentreading
- 42. > 37.3 °C ALSOCALLED PYREXIA Is a high temperature above normal range :
- 43. 41°C HYPERPYREXIA Is a veryhigh temperature above :
- 45. < 36°C HYPOTHERMIA Is lowtemperature below normal range :