%0 Journal Article
%T Evaluation of skin temperature over carotid artery for temperature monitoring in comparison to nasopharyngeal temperature in adults under general anesthesia
%A Pughal Vendan Gnanaprakasam
%A Venkatesh Selvaraj
%J Archive of "Anesthesia, Essays and Researches".
%D 2016
%R 10.4103/0259-1162.172722
%X Thermoregulation is markedly affected in patients undergoing surgical procedures under anesthesia. Monitoring of temperature is very important during such conditions. Skin temperature is one of the easy and noninvasive ways of temperature monitoring. Common skin temperature monitoring sites are unreliable and did not correlate to the core temperature measurement
%K Carotid arteries
%K human
%K skin temperature
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4864693/