A reliable determination of body temperature is a critical indication when coming to evaluate a person’s well being and monitoring the response to a given treatment.
Measuring temperature accurately and reliably may be obtained using traditional glass thermometers, based on heat conduction principal, which compromises the speed and thus the convenience of measurement (10-12 minutes). In the marketplace one can find also the electronic prediction type thermometers, based on the heat conduction principal as well, and providing limited accuracy readouts within (30-90 seconds) by using mathematical estimation of the measured temperature. Obtaining very fast temperature readings (1-2 seconds) may be achieved, compromising accuracy, using IR radiation reading (Infra red) based devices, applied in the ear canal or on the forehead.
R.A.T.E.™, conduction based technology, is an advancement in comparison with the existing technologies described above as it provides instant (4-7 seconds) readouts with the accuracy of a glass thermometer. When ill, infants and young children are often subject to volatile fluctuations in body temperature, thus, only technology that provides accurate and reliable temperature readings fulfills this sector’s needs.
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