Shake down the thermometer before using, if the reading on the thermometer is 94.0º F or above.
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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.
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.
1. Oral 2. Rectal 3. Axillary (Arm pit) 4. Tympanic (Ear)
rectal tympanic axilla
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Axillary
putting a probe in the patients armpit?
Skin disease. 2- Axillary operation. 3- Unconsciousness, shocked patients 4- Constricted peripheral blood vessels.
You can use a regular thermometer probe to take a underarm (axillary) temperature.
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.
The vessel after the axillary artery, before it branches into the radial artery and ulnar artery is called the brachial artery.