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Accuracy of Infrared Thermography for Detecting Febrile Critically Ill Patients

NCT04571554 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 135

Last updated 2021-02-23

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Summary

Accurate determination of critically ill patient of being febrile or not is an essential part of management critically ill patients as it prompt investigating the underlying cause and initiating therapeutic action.

Pulmonary artery catheter thermistor is considered the gold standard for temperature measurement . Central non-vascular thermometer such as esophageal, bladder and rectal thermometer showed excellent correlation and agreement with pulmonary artery catheter thermistor and has been accepted as alternative methods for core body temperature assessment. However, those methods are invasive and cannot be tolerated in conscious patients. Peripheral thermometer such as oral, axillary and tympanic membrane thermometer are either impractical in unconscious patient and/or carry the risk of trauma and infection.

Infrared thermography (IRT) is a non-contact and non-invasive imaging approach that enable real-time estimation of body temperature by detecting infrared emission. IRT had been used for screening for mass detection of febrile patients at airport at times of infectious disease outbreak. In adult population, IRT showed good accuracy in detecting febrile patients in emergency department; however, those studies used 37.7⁰ C as the fever threshold and the reference standard was either oral 6 or tympanic membrane thermometer. No studies to the best of our knowledge had evaluated the IRT accuracy in detecting fever in critically ill patients using esophageal thermometer as a reference method.

Conditions

  • Temperature Monitoring

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Kasr El Aini Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ahmed M Hasanin, M.D · Cairo University

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-10-01
Primary Completion
2021-01-01
Completion
2021-01-01

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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