Promo becomes yearlong event.(Home Diagnostics)(Brief Article)

Chain Drug Review;  August 16, 2004 ;     278 words ......Marybeth Pompei, vice president and chief clinical scientist of the devices' manufacturer, Exergen...coupons for $5 off the price of Exergen temporal artery thermometers at Walgreens have been...by scanning the forehead over the temporal artery. Studies at Boston Children's ...

temporal artery

The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia;      71 words ...The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 temporal artery, any one of three arteries on each side of the head: the superficial temporal artery, the middle temporal artery, and the deep temporal artery. The ideas, procedures...

Ancient medicine inspires innovative new thermometer

British Journal of Perioperative Nursing;  November 1, 2003 ;   Matthews, John;   397 words ......Colin Lloyd, who acknowledges that the temporal artery has been an important anatomical site...manuscripts about physicians using the temporal artery to take a temperature as a means of...which measures temperature at the temporal artery where it runs across the forehead...

superficial temporal artery

The Mosby Medical Encyclopedia;      77 words ......Medical Encyclopedia 10-01-1996 superficial temporal artery, an artery at each side of the head that...used for taking the pulse. Compare deep temporal artery, middle temporal artery. The ideas, procedures and suggestions contained...

Flu and Fever Detection Facts for Dr. Mom.

PR Newswire;  January 29, 2008 ;     608 words ......are as accurate or easy to use as a temporal artery thermometer, such as the Exergen TemporalScanner(TM). Temporal artery thermometers work by measuring heat emitted from the skin over the temporal artery. This artery runs along the forehead...

Fever means more than a cold.(MERCHANDISING/COUGH/COLD)(Brief article)

Chain Drug Review;  March 3, 2008 ;     272 words ......such as the one recorded by temporal artery thermometers, leads all other...Shoppers Drug Mart for under $50. Temporal artery thermometers work by measuring...emitted from the skin over the temporal artery. This artery runs along the...

Initiation of Glucocorticoid Therapy: Before or After Temporal Artery...

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  April 1, 2004 ;   Younge, Brian R; Cook, Briggs E Jr; Bartley, George B; Hodge, David O; Hunder, Gene G;   787 words ......used to identify all patients who had temporal artery biopsy at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester...were constructed to predict positive temporal artery biopsy results. * Results: During the 10-year interval, 1113 patients had temporal artery biopsy. The results were positive...

Diagnosis and Treatment of Temporal Arteritis.

American Family Physician;  April 15, 2000 ;   HUFFMAN, GRACE BROOKE;   787 words ......suspicion, (2) laboratory testing and (3) temporal artery biopsy. Clinical suspicion can be...than 50 mm per hour and an abnormal temporal artery biopsy. The highest specific clinical...claudication, visual abnormalities and temporal artery abnormalities (e.g., decreased pulse...

Temporal Artery Reading.

Family Practice News;  May 15, 2001 ;   Splete, Heidi;   132 words ...A noninvasive temporal artery thermometer is more accurate...than 1 year old, they tested a temporal artery thermometer, which is a handheld...rectally measured fever, the temporal artery thermometer had a sensitivity...

Are those new thermometers for the forehead more accurate?

The Boston Globe;  March 17, 2008 ;   JUDY FOREMAN;   333 words ......scanner works by detecting heat in the temporal artery, which runs from the heart right below...Journal of Critical Care, both oral and temporal artery thermometers were more accurate and...in the ear or under the armpit. The temporal artery method may also be quicker than rectal...

HEALTH

The Independent - London;  May 29, 1994 ;   DR TONY SMITH;   516 words ......the temple into the hair line, the temporal artery, is often tender and may be visibly...conditions. Sometimes a section of the temporal artery may be removed for examination under...unknown. If the inflammation in the temporal artery spreads to other arteries nearby it...

Interview: Dr. David Greenes talks about a new temporal artery thermometer...

All Things Considered (NPR);  April 11, 2001 ;   NOAH ADAMS;   678 words ......Dr. David Greenes talks about a new temporal artery thermometer that will give a more...market later this year. It's called a temporal artery thermometer, designed to measure blood...its path is the temperature at the temporal artery, which is an artery very close to...

Unilateral biopsy acceptable for low suspicion of temporal arteritis

Ophthalmology Times;  May 15, 2002 ;   Charters, Lynda;   787 words ...Bilateral temporal artery biopsy should be done in cases...Philadelphia-Performing bilateral versus unilateral temporal artery biopsy for temporal arteritis...181 patients who had undergone temporal artery biopsies to determine the indications...

Think giant cell arteritis in new-onset headache.(Clinical Rounds)

Family Practice News;  March 15, 2007 ;   Brunk, Doug;   531 words ......C-reactive protein level was 6.4 ng/mL. Her temporal artery was palpable bilaterally, and there...600 mg plus vitamin D 20O U daily. Temporal artery biopsy revealed granulomatous inflammation...of giant cells in the media of the temporal artery. Dr. De Jesus-Monge noted that the...

Giant cell arteritis as a cause of jaw claudication

Neurology India;  July 1, 2004 ;   Yadav, Sarita; Bambery, Pradeep; Wanchu, Ajay; Kakkar, Nandita; Singh, Surjit;   579 words ......were normal except for the right temporal artery which was not palpable and the left temporal artery was feeble. The facial artery on...Systemic examination was normal. Temporal artery biopsy (right side) revealed intimal...