• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제48권8호
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• pp.820-825
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• 2005

목 적 : 감염과 질병상태의 유용한 인자인 열의 존재와 정도를 좀더 손쉽고 정확하게 확인하기 위해, 고막체온계 및 이마체온계의 정확성과 유용성을 평가하고자 하였다. 방 법 : 2004년 1월 1일부터 12월 31일 까지 중앙대학교 부속 병원에 입원하여 치료받았던 환아 중 무작위로 1,050명을 선출하여 대상으로 하였으며, 수은 체온계, 고막 체온계(BRAUN IRT $3020^{(R)}$) 및 이마 체온계(HubDIC $DOTORY^{(R)}$)로 동시에 체온을 측정하였고 이를 비교, 분석하여 상관관계를 조사하였다. 결 과 : 고막 체온계와 이마 체온계의 측정치는 각각 표준 검사인 수은 체온계의 측정치와 유의한 상관관계 및 상호 교환성을 가졌으며, 양측 고막 간, 그리고 고막 체온계와 이마 체온계 사이에서도 유의한 상관관계를 보였다. 발열에 대한 고막 체온계의 민감도는 오른쪽과 왼쪽에서 각각 81.1%, 82.4%였고, 양성 예측률은 각각 81.8%, 73.6%였다. 이마 체온계의 민감도는 83.3%였으며, 양성 예측률은 74.4%였다. 결 론 : 고막 체온계(BRAUN IRT $3020^{(R)}$) 및 이마형 체온계(HubDIC $DOTORY^{(R)}$)가 액와형 수은체온계와 통계적으로 유의한 상관성 및 일치성을 보이며(P<0.05), 또한 발열에 대한 민감도 및 양성 예측률이 매우 높아 일상의 가정에서나 병원에서 진료목적으로, 연구 목적으로 체온 측정하는 데 유용하게 사용될 수 있을 것으로 본다.

• 한국간호교육학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.95-106
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• 1998

This study aims to provide a better nursing service in the dimension of economizing time and human efforts. This is to present some basic knowledge necessary to improving a nursing quality in measuring body temperature by analyzing the contents that the objects experienced at the time of measure with tympanic thermometer and mercury thermometer Subjects of the survey consisted of 71 college students, 47 adult patients and 40 pediatric patients. The results were as follows : 1. The oral temperature by mercury thermometer and tympanic thermometer with oral mode was : $36.83^{\circ}C$ by mercury thermometer and $37.02^{\circ}C$ by tympanic thermometer in college students : it showed an significant difference statistically. 2. Comparsion between oral mode and rectal mode by tympanic thermometer in college students : $37.03^{\circ}C$ by oral mode and $37.55^{\circ}C$ by rectal mode and this defference was significant statistically 3. Comparision between rectal temperature by mercury thermometer and rectal mode of tympanic thermometer : $37.54^{\circ}C$ by mercury thermometer and $37.73^{\circ}C$ by tympanic thermometer, it showed a significant difference statistically. 4. Comparision between oral temperature by mercury thermometer and oral mode of tympanic thermometer of the pediatric patients : $36.51^{\circ}C$ by mercury temperature and $36.94^{\circ}C$ by tympanic thermometer, it showed a significant difference statistically. 5. Comparision between oral body temperature by mercury thermometer and oral mode of tympanic thermometer of the adult patients : $36.56^{\circ}C$ by mercury thermometer and $36.90^{\circ}C$ by tympanic thermometer, it did not show statistically any difference. 6. At the measure by mercury thermometer this data can classified In three main categorise : their feeling to a thermometer, thermometer itself and aspect physical of the clients. It is considered that an subjective experience to tympanic thermometer was more positive.

• 대한임상독성학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.22-30
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• 2014

Purpose: The purpose of this systematic review was to evaluate the evidence regarding injury and poisoning associated with the clinical mercury thermometer. Methods: Electronic literature searches were conducted for identification of relevant studies and case reports of injury and poisoning associated with the clinical mercury thermometer. The search outcomes were limited to literature with English and Korean languages published from 1966. Studies related to occupational mercury exposure, or mercury exposure from sphygmomanometer, barometer, and fluorescent light were excluded. Results: A total of 60 reports, including 59 case reports, were finally included. Of those, nine cases pertained to an intact thermometer as a foreign body, 25 injuries were related to a thermometer, and 26 cases involved exposures to mercury from a broken thermometer. Case reports were classified according to severity into 16 mild, 41 moderate, and two severe cases. Two cases of mortality were reported, one was deliberate intravenous injection of mercury and the other was acute vapor inhalation of mercury from broken thermometers. Conclusion: Findings of this systematic review suggested that the mercury thermometer could cause various forms of poisoning and injury. In particular, inhalation of mercury vapor from a broken thermometer can lead to systemic toxicity requiring chelating therapy.