 BMS Questions and

answers
What is tempareture?
Tempareture is ameasurment of the degree of the head of the body or sbstance as
measurment by athermometer.

What is normal tempareture?

Normal tempareture is abalence b/w heat produce and heat loss.
Other name of the normal tempareture is euthermia.

They have two important elements of thermometer:

 1=atemperature sensor
 some means of converting this change into a numerical valve
heat production:
 muscles
 glands
 oxidation of food
heat loss
 repiration
 perspiration
 excretion
factors affecting temperature
 exercice
 illness
 age
 time of day
 medications
 infecction
 emotion
  hydration
 clothing
purpose for taking temperature:
 to aid in dertermining the patient’s condition
 to assist in diagnosis of malaria
 to recongnize any veriation from the normal and significcation
time taking temperature:
 on admission
 evry four hours of firs 48 hours post operative
 immediately after child has had fits or convulsian
 any time if patient is seriously ill
types of thermometers:
 lotion thermometer
 wall thermometer
 electric thermometer
 clinical thermometer
 medical thermometer is also called clinical thermometer
 clinical thermometer: is used for measuring human or animal body temperature.
 Basal thermometer: is athermometer used to take the body temperature
Temperature rates:
 Oral temperature 37C
 Rectal temperature 37.5C
 Axilla site 36.5C
Tympanic route 36.8-37.9C
Some other of terminology
 Pyrexia:fever temperature above the normal vaiue
 Hyper pyrexia: excessively high temperature above 40C
 Hypothermia: temperature below 34.4C
 Aferbrile: with out