PubMed · 587955
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S Bramwell. 1977-09-15. Thermometer versus moodstone.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/587955/
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A proposed Norwegian ban on clinical thermometers containing mercury will affect the equipment available for clinical measurements of temperature. The basic technological principles and applications of electronic thermometers and infrared tympanic thermometers are reviewed and discussed.
One of the major methodological-analytic problems encountered by researchers in sleep deprivation involves the examination and analysis of the relationship between sleep loss and rhythmic influences on performance. The comparison of performance rhythms with physiological rhythms, e.g., body temperature, generated under the same conditions of sleep deprivation, has become an important means of testing for an endogenous source of the rhythmicity in the data and for clarifying the nature of the proposed oscillator system. Should the data sets be correlated before or after their separation into monotonic and rhythmic parts? Correlating the raw data without separating them into their components can yield negative results, while, in reality, some of the major underlying rhythms may be highly related. The example used in this chapter showed strong cross correlations of the circadian components of temperature and two performance tasks. Sleep deprivation is thus seen to interact with performance rhythms. This interaction is only revealed after the data are analyzed and broken into their component parts. This procedure leads to the conclusion that certain performance rhythms and temperature may share the same generating oscillators.
The increasing popularity of warm heart surgery led us to assess the effect of temperature during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) on neuropsychological function after coronary surgery. 34 patients enrolled in a randomised trial of normothermic versus hypothermic CPB were subjected to a battery of psychomotor and memory tests before and after their operations. The mean nasopharyngeal temperature for warm CPB was 34.7 (SD 0.5) degrees C and that for hypothermic CPB was 27.8 (2.0) degrees C. In all seven neuropsychological tests the postoperative scores were better in the warm CPB than in the hypothermic group, although only one difference achieved significance (trial-making test A; p less than 0.023). Thus, neurological function after normothermic CPB seems to be no worse than that after hypothermic procedures.