Title
Development of a Novel Scheme for Long-Term Body Temperature Monitoring: A Review of Benefits and Applications
Abstract
Body temperature is a health or disease marker that has been in clinical use for centuries. The threshold currently applied to define fever, with small variations, is 38 C. However, current approaches do not provide a full picture of the thermoregulation process and its correlation with disease. This paper describes a new non-invasive body temperature device that improves the understanding of the pathophysiology of diseases by integrating a variety of temperature data from different body locations. This device enables to gain a deeper insight into fever, endogenous rhythms, subject activity and ambient temperature to provide anticipatory and more efficient treatments. Its clinical use would be a big step in the overcoming of the anachronistic febrile/afebrile dichotomy and walking towards a system medicine approach to certain diseases. This device has already been used in some clinical applications successfully. Other possible applications based on the device features and clinical requirements are also described in this paper.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/s10916-015-0209-3
Journal of Medical Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
medical diagnosis,nursing,body temperature
Data mining,Body temperature device,Risk analysis (engineering),Surgery,Medicine,Medical diagnosis
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
39
4
1573-689X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.36
3
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
D. Cuesta-Frau114923.78
Manuel Varela-Entrecanales2160.80
Raul Valor-Perez3130.36
Borja Vargas4182.56