Talk:Medical thermometer
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[edit] history
how about a little more history? and maybe sections? this article should be expanded; about every family household (in the U.S. where i'm from) has some kind of medical thermometer. JoeSmack Talk 20:08, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
- The history is already outlined at thermometer. This article is really just about the medical uses. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:51, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
- and basal has been re-directed here after a merger proposal of it into thermometer, I've actually proposed this be merged into thermometer itself as there isn't really enough to warrant its own article. Travellingcari (talk) 01:44, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
- I think there could be medical thermometer history too. i.e., first use, recognition in diagnosis, et cetera. Pdbailey (talk) 22:27, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
- I think that's an option. I don't know enough about it to write it, but it's an option for expansion/improvement. Travellingcari (talk) 01:00, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
- I think there could be medical thermometer history too. i.e., first use, recognition in diagnosis, et cetera. Pdbailey (talk) 22:27, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
- and basal has been re-directed here after a merger proposal of it into thermometer, I've actually proposed this be merged into thermometer itself as there isn't really enough to warrant its own article. Travellingcari (talk) 01:44, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
I note the description of "traditional mercury thermometers" mercury was replaced in clinical thermometers I think as far back as the 1960's the safer option adopted being alcohol with a red dye —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.2.184.106 (talk) 13:15, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Current state of metrication in U.S. hospitals?
Question for a practicing U.S. hospital physician: What is the current state of metrication in U.S. hospitals with regard to body temperature? Is it usually measured in °C nowadays? Sometimes? Rarely? Always? Thanks. — ¾-10 16:44, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Change of Title
As medical thermometers are not fundamentally different from the technologies used elsewhere, might the article be better formulated as "medical thermometry", and deal with the practices of temperature measurement, rather than repeating the basics of thermometers? Chemical Engineer (talk) 16:27, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
