Measurement accuracy of fever by tympanic and axillary thermometry

Devrim I., Kara A., Ceyhan M., Tezer H., Uludag A. K., Cengiz A. B., ...More

PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY CARE, vol.23, no.1, pp.16-19, 2007 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 23 Issue: 1
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • Doi Number: 10.1097/pec.0b013e31802c61e6
  • Journal Name: PEDIATRIC EMERGENCY CARE
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.16-19
  • Hacettepe University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

As the basic sciences develop, temperature measurement methods and devices were improved. For hundreds of years both in clinics and home, mercury-in-glass thermometer was the standard of human temperature measurements.