Open AccessTemporal Artery Temperature Measurements Do Not Detect Hyperthermic Marathon Runners
Author(s) -
Kevin Ronneberg,
William O. Roberts,
Alexander Duncan Mcbean
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
medicine and science in sports and exercise
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.703
H-Index - 224
eISSN - 1530-0315
pISSN - 0195-9131
DOI - 10.1249/mss.0b013e31816d65bb
Subject(s) - core temperature , rectal temperature , medicine , thermometer , temperature measurement , coefficient of variation , cardiology , mathematics , physics , statistics , quantum mechanics
Exertional heat stroke is a cause of collapse in marathon runners. Rectal temperature (T(rectal)) measurement is the usual method of estimating core temperature in collapsed runners, and temporal artery thermometer (TAT) measurement is untested for field use in marathon runners and other athletes. The objective of this study is to compare TAT measurement with T(rectal) measurement in collapsed marathon runners.