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Shake down the thermometer before using, if the reading on the thermometer is 94.0º F or above.

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Q: What do you do before taking an axillary temperature?
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What is a Axillary Temperature?

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Why is axillary temperature the least accurate?

Axillary temperature is the least accurate because the area is exposed to circulating air outside of the armpit cavity, and in order for the result to be accurate, it takes 10 minutes of holding the thermometer in place. This is hard on the patient and the lab tech/nurse taking the person's temperature.


How is temperature taken through an oral placement?

The procedure for taking a patient's temperature by mouth with a mercury thermometer is similar to the axillary method except that the silver tip of the thermometer is placed beneath the tongue for four to five minutes before being read.


What is the different routes for taking a temperature?

1. Oral 2. Rectal 3. Axillary (Arm pit) 4. Tympanic (Ear)


List three instances in which the axillary site for taking body temperature would be preferred over the oral site?

rectal tympanic axilla


What color thermometer is used for axillary temperature?

Blue


Which method of temperature measurement is the least accurate?

Axillary


How do you calculate an axillary temperature?

putting a probe in the patients armpit?


Contra indications for axillary temperature?

Skin disease. 2- Axillary operation. 3- Unconsciousness, shocked patients 4- Constricted peripheral blood vessels.


What do you use for temperature under the arm pit?

You can use a regular thermometer probe to take a underarm (axillary) temperature.


Why are thermometer placed in armpit in getting body thermometer?

There are four ways to get someones temperature: orally (by mouth), axillary (armpit), rectally or they can stick a thermometer in your ear. Axillary is the least accurate but sometimes is the only way to get a persons temperature.


What is the next vessel after the axillary artery and before the radial and ulnar artery?

The vessel after the axillary artery, before it branches into the radial artery and ulnar artery is called the brachial artery.