Temporal Artery Thermometry
T
he 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 ca-
rotid, the superficial TA courses within about a millime-
ter of the skin’s surface over the lateral forehead, pro-
viding 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 reliabil-
ity 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 non-
invasively measuring temperature with a degree of
clinical accuracy unachievable with other methods of
thermometry.
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