Herring temperature

A 73-year-old woman presents to your clinic complaining of difficulty breathing and shortness of breath. Her physical examination reveals that she is alert and oriented x 3, has decreased breath sounds on the left side compared with the right, and has rales in the left lower lobe. Her temperature is 37.4°C, respiratory rate is 20 breaths per minute, and blood pressure is 110/76 mm Hg. 

Third grade student Stephanie Wink goes to the school nurse s office, where her temperature is found to be 98 degrees Fahrenheit. What is her temperature in degrees Celsius C = (F - 32)... 

A 33-year-old female patient treated with haloperidol for a history of schizophrenia is seen in the ED because of complaints of fever, stiffness, and tremor. Her temperature is 104°F, and her serum creatine kinase (CK) level is elevated. What has occurred ... 

Heat stroke is much more serious it is an immediate life-threatening situation. The characteristics of heat stroke are a high body temperature (which may reach 106° F or more) a rapid pulse hot, dry skin and a blocked sweating mechanism. Victims of this condition may be unconscious, and first-aid measures should be directed at quickly cooling the body. The victim should be placed in a tub of cold water or repeatedly sponged with cool water until his or her temperature is sufficiently lowered. Fans or air conditioners will also help with the cooling process. Care should be taken, however, not to over-chill the victim once the temperature is below 102° F. 

Examination showed that her lower abdomen was a little distended and very tender, but there were no other abnormalities. Her blood pressure was low at 102/70 mmHg and her temperature slightly raised at 38.5 °C. A blood sample showed normal haemoglobin and red cell number, but a raised white blood cell count. No intestinal obstruction showed on an X-ray of her abdomen. In view of her symptoms and age, a provisional diagnosis of diverticulitis was made. 

A 20-year-old woman became unresponsive after taking two tablets of MDMA. She had a heart rate of 172/ minute, a blood pressure of 164/118 mmHg, a respiratory rate of 30/minute, and a temperature of 41.8°C. She was placed under a cooling blanket, with ice packs and fans and 30 minutes later her temperature was 40.8°C, with a subsequent fall to 37.9°C 20 minutes after that. She also had a deep vein thrombosis in the arm. She continued to improve and there were no sequelae. 

A 33-year-old woman with spasticity caused by a myelopathy after numerous operations on her spine received a single bolus dose of baclofen 50 pg via a lumbar puncture, which resulted in complete resolution of her spasticity for almost 24 hours. However, her temperature increased to 39.0 C within 2 hours after the injection, and she had flu-like sjmptoms. Influenza was assumed to be the most likely explanation, as a child in her house had influenza at that time. Subsequently, an intrathecal catheter was placed and a baclofen pump implanted. However, her temperature rose again after baclofen administration had been started and the pump was halted. Subsequently, several attempts were made to restart the infusion, followed each time by spikes of fever. In the end, continuous intrathecal baclofen therapy had to be abandoned, and the fever did not recur. Several investigations to identify other causes of fever were mostly negative. However, based on bilateral hilar adenopathy on the... 

A 44-year-old HIV-1 infected woman from the Ivory Coast, who was taking stavudine, lamivudine, efavirenz, and pyrimethamine plus sulfadiazine for Toxoplasma encephalitis, developed a maculopapular rash on both arms. The sulfadiazine was withdrawn and clindamycin was added. Ten days later her condition had worsened. Her temperature was 40 C, pulse rate 137/minute, and respiratory rate 26/minute. She had a generalized maculopapular rash without mucosal involvement, moderate abdominal tenderness, hepatomegaly, jaundice, and bilateral crackles. Her white cell count was 16 x 10 /1 with 9% eosinophils and 51% lymphocytes. A chest X-ray showed moderate bilateral interstitial pneumonitis. All drugs were withdrawn and she was given intravenous methylprednisolone. The skin rash and aU systemic manifestations resolved within 1 week and HIV treatment was restarted uneventfully with lamivudine, stavudine, and nehinavir. 

Third grade student Stephanie Wink goes to the school nurse s office, where her temperature... 

When a patient is ill, his or her temperature may increase to 104°F. Calculate the temperature of this patient in ... 

The high-pressure water supply service is employed for the operation of the o inary filter pump, which finds so many applications in the laboratory. A typical all metal filter pump is illustrated in Fig. II, 21, 1It is an advantage to have a non-return valve fitted in the side arm to prevent sucking back if the water is turned oflF or if the water pressure is suddenly reduced. Theoretically, an efficient filter pump should reduce the pressure in a system to a value equal to the vapour pressure of the water at the temperature of the water of the supply mains. In practice this pressure is rarely attained (it is usually 4-10 mm. higher) because of the leakage of air into the apparatus and the h her temperature of the laboratory. The vapour pressures of water at 5 , 10 , 15 , 20 and 25 are respectively 6 5, 9 2,12 8, 17 5 and 23 8 mm. respectively. It is evident that the vacuum obtained with a water pump will vary considerably with the temperature of the water and therefore with the season of the year in any case a really good vacuum cannot be produced by a fflter pump. 

A 26-year-old woman, otherwise healthy, complains of burning on urination. She has had a slight fever for the past 24 hours, with backache. On physical examination, her temperature is elevated but her blood pressure and pulse are within normal limits. Abdominal examination is normal, but... 

The patient must be instmcted to monitor his or her temperature to be sure that the infection is subsiding. Generally, healthy patients can expect to see some improvement in the infection within 48 hours. They should be instructed to return to or contact the prescriber if symptoms worsen or do not improve somewhat in 48 hours. Patients with diabetes, immunosuppressed conditions such as AIDS, or some cancers might not respond as quickly to antibiotic therapy. 

The nurse must teach the client selfmonitoring for manifestations of endocarditis. The client should take his or her temperature daily and report an elevated temperature. 

A woman who had been taking tranylcypromine 10 mg twice daily for about 3 weeks, stopped taking it 3 days before she took a single tablet of imipramine. Within a few hours she complained of an excruciating headache, and soon afterwards lost consciousness and started to convulse. The toxic reactions manifested were a temperature of 40.6°C, pulse rate of 120 bpm, severe extensor rigidity, carpal spasm, opisthotonos and cyanosis. She was treated with amobarbital and phenytoin, and her temperature was reduced with alcohol-ice-soaked towels. The treatment was effective and she recovered. ... 

Answer (D) If the mountain climber s body did not immediately replenish the lost heat her body temperature would drop by more than ten degrees, ((body) = 36.6 - 10.5 = 25.1°C. If her metabolism did not switch into high gear - long before her temperature drops several degrees Celsius - she would die. To keep the temperature of her body about constant she would have to burn, fast, a lot of food and reserve nutrients in the body. If this has happened as described the mountain climber would suffer from a severe hypothermia and possibly experience disruption of some bodily functions. You may now appreciate the fact we all take for granted today our clothes are coated with water-repellant materials. 

A 21-year-old woman, who used cocaine regularly and occasionally other drugs of abuse, took moclobemide 1800 mg at 15.00 h and venlafaxine 1800 mg at 18.00 h. At 20.14 h she was conscious but restless and agitated. She had excessively clammy skin with a normal body temperature, increased symmetrical reflexes, ataxia, increased muscle tone, and dilated pupils her blood pressure was 180/120 mmHg, pulse rate 105/minute, and respiratory rate 16/minute. She deteriorated at around 23.30 h, with loss of verbal contact, severe agitation, hallucinations, periodic coma, continuously dilated pupils, a tachycardia of 124/minute and a blood pressure of 105/90 mmHg. Two hours later, her respiratory rate was 34/minute, and her temperature 41-42 °C. She had bloody respiratory secretions and loose bloody stools. Her heart rate increased to 170/minute and she developed ventricular fibrillation. Deflbrillation was unsuccessful and she died. 

Selvasekarapandian et al. studied soHd polymer electrolytes based on polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)/ammonium acetate using variable temperature H sohd-state MAS NMR. It was revealed that the proton Hne width decreases exponentially with the increase of temperature, and concluded that the NH4 ion is responsible for the proton conduction and the anionic motion is also involved in the conduction process at b her temperature [38],... 

A 48-year-old woman developed a fever and pain in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen 8 hours after a barium study that was performed through an ileostomy stoma [19 ]. Her temperature was 38.5°C and there was tenderness and rebound tenderness over McBurney s point. The white cell count was raised. A supine plain abdominal X-ray showed retained barium in the cecum and appendix, which was confirmed by a Cr scan, which also showed mild swelling of the appendiceal walk The appendix was resected. It was red and edematous and there was barium in the lumen. 

Results from the DIPPR project (5) were selected for liquid density from low temperatures at the melting point to l%her temperatures up to the critical point. A modified Radcett equation. Equation (l-3a), was used for correlation of the data as a function of temperature. Results from the correlation are in favorable agreement with data. Deviations are less than 1-2% in most cases. 

Your friend who is visiting from Canada just took her temperature. When it reads 99.8, she becomes concerned that she is quite ill. How would you explain this temperature to your friend ... 

In the United States, we still use the Fahrenheit temperature scale. In °F, normal body temperature is 98.6. On the Celsius scale, her temperature would be 37.7 °C, a mild fever. 

Examination revealed a well-developed female in apparent distress. Her temperature, orally, was 101°F. Her pulse was 94 beats per minute her respirations were normal. Her blood pressure was 110/75 mm Hg, and she had normal cardiac and breath sounds. Her abdomen was generally tender throughout without rigidity being present and she had pain on palpation of the right back at the costovertebral region. A structural examination revealed a somatic dys-... 

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