Temporal Artery Temperature Measurement in Neonates

University of Iowa

Status: Completed

Conditions: Newborn Infant

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02405429

201404832

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to evaluate the temporal artery thermometer by comparing temporal artery and axillary thermometer temperature measurements with rectal thermometer temperature measurements in neonatal patients. The investigators measured temporal artery, axillary, and rectal temperatures of 49 infants. Temporal artery temperature was measured using an infrared temporal artery thermometer, and the results with this device were compared with axillary temperature (clinical standard) and rectal temperature (gold standard). The difference between rectal and temporal artery temperatures was compared with the difference between rectal and axillary temperatures for each infant, and the data were analyzed based on weight, postmenstrual age and bed type - open crib or incubator.

Enrollment: 49 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 6 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients in hospital well-baby nursery or neonatal intensive care unit

Exclusion criteria

• Birth weight <500 grams
• Anal atresia
• Central nervous system malformation
• Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
• Clinical concerns for necrotizing enterocolitis or other bowel injury or discontinuity