Background: Body temperature is commonly used to screen patients for infectious diseases,
establish diagnoses, monitor therapy, and guide management decisions. Purpose: To …

Clinicians often need to know whether a new method of measurement is equivalent to an
established one already in clinical use. This article reviews the methodology of a method …

Objective. Comparisons of urinary bladder, oesophageal, rectal, axillary, and inguinal
temperatures versus pulmonary artery temperature. Design. Prospective cohort study …

Background Temperature management is used with increased frequency as a tool to
mitigate neurological injury. Although frequently used, little is known about the optimal …

CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES are systematically developed guidelines or statements
designed to assist the practitioner and/or patient in making appropriate health care …

Healthy adult horses can balance accumulation and dissipation of body heat to maintain
their body temperature between 37.5 and 38.5° C, when they are in their thermoneutral zone …

Objective: Uncontrolled exposure hypothermia is believed to be deleterious in the setting of
major trauma. Prevention of hypothermia in the injured patient is currently practiced in both …

The human thermoregulatory system dictates the transfer of heat, produced within organs
and skeletal muscles, through body layers and its dissipation to the environment. With the …

Hypothermia is present in up to two-thirds of patients with severe injury, although it is often
disregarded during the initial resuscitation. Studies have revealed that hypothermia is …

Body temperature is commonly measured to confirm the presence or absence of fever.
However, there remains considerable controversy regarding the most appropriate …