Comparación de valores de temperatura obtenidos con termómetro ótico digital y con termómetros axilar y rectal de mercurio en menores de 5 años

C, Peter Mccoll; Sch, Karen Cohen; B, Francisca Soto-Aguilar; M, Alberto Caro

doi:10.4067/s0370-41062013000300007

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“…In five hypothermic cats, it was not possible to measure their temperature using the mercury thermometer, because they had a rectal temperature below 35ºC. The graduation scale for temperature measurements using this type of thermometer only start at 35ºC (MCCOLL et al, 2013). This makes it difficult to monitor patients at times like the immediate postoperative period, as was the case of these hypothermic cats in the present study.…”

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Temperature Measurements in Cats Using Digital, Mercury and Tympanic Infrared Thermometers

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et al. 2021

Ars Vet

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With a view to reducing stress and discomfort and improving the practicality of making temperature measurements on cats, the aim of this study was to evaluate the use of a tympanic infrared thermometer (TIT), which is an easy-to-use device for measuring temperatures quickly, comfortably and more hygienically. For this, were selected 120 domestic cats living in Sousa, Paraíba, northeastern Brazil. Among them, 100 were normothermic, ten were hypothermic and ten were hyperthermic. None of them had any clinical signs of external or internal otitis. The measurements using the digital thermometer were higher than those using the TIT (P < 0.05), in the normothermic and hyperthermic cats. In the hypothermic cats, there was no difference (P ≥ 0.05) in mean values from the three types of thermometer. The values obtained using the mercury thermometer did not differ (P ≥ 0.05) from the values obtained using the other thermometers. There was a strong positive correlation in almost all the evaluations between the three thermometers, except for digital versus TIT for hyperthermic cats (r < 0.75). Because of the discrepancy between the values obtained by the TIT and the digital rectal thermometer, we suggest that further studies should be carried out in order to establish a temperature correction table for the TIT, so that it can be better used in veterinary medicine.

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