ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023
Accuracy of a Dual-Sensor Heat-Flux (DHF) Non-Invasive Core Temperature Sensor in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Surgery.
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- What is the minimum time interval for reporting of intraoperative core body temperature measurements in pediatric anesthesia? A secondary analysis.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2025Article
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- Accuracy of non-invasive core temperature monitoring in infant and toddler patients: a prospective observational study.Journal of anesthesia · 2024Observational
- Thermal mapping: Assessing the optimal sites for temperature measurement in the human body and emerging technologies.Physiological reports · 2024Review
- Preventing Perioperative Hypothermia in Neonatal Surgical Patients: A Phased Quality Improvement Initiative within the Wake Up Safe Collaborative.Pediatric quality & safetyArticle
- Construction and validation of a risk prediction model for intraoperative hypothermia in children undergoing thoracoscopic lobectomy.Science progressArticle
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Accurate temperature measurement is crucial for the perioperative management of pediatric patients, and non-invasive thermometry is necessary when invasive methods are infeasible. A prospective observational study was conducted on 57 patients undergoing elective surgery. Temperatures were measured using a dual-sensor heat-flux (DHF) thermometer (Tcore™) and a rectal temperature probe (TRec), and the agreement between the two measurements was assessed. The DHF measurements showed a bias of +0.413 °C compared with those of the TRec. The limits of agreement were broader than the pre-defined ±0.5 °C range (-0.741 °C and +1.567 °C). Although the DHF sensors tended to overestimate the core temperature compared to the rectal measurements, an error grid analysis demonstrated that 95.81% of the DHF measurements would not have led to a wrong clinical decision, e.g., warming or cooling when not necessary. In conclusion, the low number of measurements that would have led to incorrect decisions suggests that the DHF sensor can be considered an option for continuous temperature measurement when more invasive methods are infeasible.
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