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The temporal artery (TA) area
has a long history of temperature
assessment dating back thousands
of years with recorded references
to palpation of the head for fever
assessment. Branching from the
external carotid, the superficial TA
courses within about a millimeter
of the skin’s surface over the lateral
forehead, providing good heat
conduction to the skin surface, is
readily accessible, and provides no
risk of injury from being touched.
Since it is not an anastomosing
vessel, perfusion remains high and
stable, ensuring the reliability of
conditions for the patented Arterial
Heat Balance method to compute
accurate temperatures.
This new, superior class of
thermometry has been shown to
improve outcomes and reduce
costs by noninvasively measuring
temperature with a degree of
clinical accuracy unachievable with
other methods of thermometry.
Temporal Artery Thermometry
