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Paul Trusten wrote:
One of the doctors at hospital where I am employed orders Tylenol for fever as follows: " . . .every four hours as needed for temperature over 38." He is the only physician at my institution who orders medication based on Celsius body temperature. Since our nurses lack familiarity with Celsius, and apparently have no Celsius fever thermometers, they sometimes call down to the pharmacy to ask what the equivalent is in Fahrenheit. Curious to see if Celsius had made inroads in popular fever thermometers, I checked my local Walgreens last night and found two Celsius-capable devices, one analog, the other digital.
The analog one, imported from Germany by RG Medical Diagnostics of Southfield, Michigan (www.rgmd.com <http://www.rgmd.com>) was interesting, in that it contained what was described as a mercury substitute. It had a dual Celsius-Fahrenheit scale, with the "normal" body temperature marked on the scales in red (38 C, 98.6 F). The analog thermometer was $10, and the digital one was $12.
The digital thermometer that had Celsius was a Becton-Dickinson (B-D) Rapid Flex, which could be set to read out in either Celsius or Fahrenheit.
Paul Trusten, R.Ph.
Editor, "Metric Today"
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