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Parts of Clinical Thermometer And How to Disinfect Thermometer?

Clinical or Medical Thermometer 

 

A medical thermometer/ clinical thermometer is a device that is used to measure the temperature of a body.

A glass thermometer consists of; a stem (long part) and bulb (containing a small amount of mercury).

Vital signs help detect or monitor a basic health conditions. The Vital signs include; TPR (Body Temperature, Pulse, Respiration) and BP.

 

Parts of Thermometer

 

The parts of the clinical thermometer are 





Parts of Clinical Thermometer



1. Stem

The stem is a longer part of the glass thermometer.

 

2. Mercury Bulb

 

The bulb of the clinical thermometer is spherical in shape to store the mercury and is usually made of stainless steel.

The bulb is the lowest part of the glass thermometer, which acts as a reservoir to hold mercury.

 

It contains a small amount of mercury. Mercury is a metal, at the ordinary temperature, it is in liquid form. Mercury expands in response to heat.

 If the temperature is high then mercury in the bulb moves up the capillary tube.

Mercury leaves the bulb, when the temperature rises and when the temperature descends, the mercury returns to deposit inside the bulb.

 

3. Capillary tube

 

The capillary or stem is the tube of the mercury thermometer through which the mercury flows.

The capillary tube is present inside the glass thermometer, and it is connected to the bulb.

The capillary tube is the long cylindrical tube in a mercury thermometer that is connected to the bulb.

When the temperature rises up, the mercury flows up the capillary.

Where capillary tube ends, after that section known as the expansion chamber.

 

4. Expansion chamber

 

The expansion chamber of the mercury thermometer is found at the top of the capillary.

The expansion chamber function is to form a larger volume. If the maximum temperature scale is exceeded, then through which the mercury can fill.

 

5. Scale lines

 

Scale line in thermometer is divisions of equal length (degrees) marked on the thermometer that indicate the units of measurement. It depends on the type of thermometer that can have ° F or ° C.  

When the temperature increases, the mercury inside the bulb rises and when cool, it goes down.  

Scale line shows how far the mercury rises and goes down, marks on the body of the thermometer indicate the temperature level.

 

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6. Constriction

 


Constriction in the thermometer prevents mercury from backflow into the bulb when the reading is being taken.

The constriction part is narrower than the stem; it causes the mercury to slow down and gives the user the necessary time to read the temperature reached.

 

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Types of Thermometer

 

There are different types of thermometer are- 


 

1. Digital thermometers

2. Ear (or tympanic) thermometers

3. Infrared thermometers

4. Strip-type thermometers

5. Mercury thermometers

6. App-based thermometer

7. Pacifier thermometer

 

 

1. Digital thermometers


Digital thermometers work by using heat sensors that determine body temperature and display reading numerically on the digital screen.

Digital thermometers can be used to take temperature readings in the mouth, rectum, or armpit.

Oral temperature can be measured by either a digital or mercury thermometer.

 

2. Ear (or tympanic) thermometers


Ear thermometers/ Tympanic thermometers measure the temperature inside the ear canal through infrared ray technology. It is put in the child's ear. 

 

3. Infared thermometers


Infared thermometers use an infrared scanner to measure temperature.

An infared thermometer can be used on both the forehead and wrist areas.


The forehead thermometer uses infrared sensors to measure the temperature of the superficial temporal artery.

 

4. Strip-type thermometers


The use of Strip-type thermometers is on the forehead.

A temperature strip/ plastic strip thermometer is a type of thermometer; that contains heat-sensitive material in a plastic strip that changes color to indicate different temperatures.


5. Mercury thermometers

 

Mercury thermometers are mercury-in-glass thermometers. Do not use mercury thermometers; they can break, releasing small fragments of glass and highly poisonous mercury.


6. App-based thermometer


Smartphone apps use the temperature sensors in the phone to show the temperature near your phone. 

 

7. Pacifier thermometer


A Pacifier thermometer helps to measure the body temperature in infants. If a baby comes down with a fever it changes color in stages from blue to red, which shows a fever.

 


Use of Clinical Thermometer

 

A clinical Thermometer is used to measure the body temperature.

 


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How to Disinfection of Clinical Thermometer?

 

Clean your thermometer before and after you use it with either rubbing alcohol or lukewarm soapy water, then rinse with cool water. The clinical thermometer should keep in a safe place, away from the child's reach.

 

Disinfection Rule

Less contaminated to more contaminated

 

Disinfected the thermometer with an alcohol swab or cotton ball dipped in alcohol clean within one stroke.

 

Before Use

 

Blub to stem


Disinfected the thermometer with an alcohol swab or cotton ball dipped in alcohol and rubbed Blub to stem within one stroke.

 

After Use

 

Stem to bulb


Disinfected the thermometer with an alcohol swab or cotton ball dipped in alcohol and rubbed Stem to bulb within one stroke.






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