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H
ere are a few
ways to con-
stantly moni-
tor body temperature
so that your patients
keep warm from pre- to
post-op.
1. Infrared
scanning device
Your journey to keep-
ing your patients nor-
mothermic starts
when they walk
through those surgical
facility doors. For Kim
York, BSN, MS, RN,
CNOR, CSSM, that
means turning to the
temporal infrared
scanning device, a
small, handheld ther-
mometer with a round plastic tip that you press and hold against the
patient's forehead before scanning it across her skin. The device cap-
tures infrared heat emitting from your patient's skin and measures it
against the temperature of the surrounding area. It uses both meas-
Monitor and Maintain Normothermia
3 non-invasive ways to easily track your patient's
core body temperature before, during and after surgery.
anna Merriman | associate Editor
• NON-INVASIVE An infrared scanning device helps you tell a patient's arterial
temperature without an invasive oral procedure.
Kim
York,
BSN,
MS,
RN,
CNOR,
CSSM
