Thermofocus vet thermometer

RE: Thermofocus vet thermometer

Anthony Dennison — Mon, 14 Mar 2016 09:41:59 GMT

My practice got one, and no-one was allowed to use it except nurses in case someone broke it. Don't think it's really used now.

RE: Thermofocus vet thermometer

Andrew Mellor — Fri, 04 Mar 2016 18:38:27 GMT

I bought one , thought it would be great but the accuracy is not that great and unless you regularly check the same animal I would not be confident that you could even tell if it had a change of temp or not. also in my hands trying to get a cat to look straight at me or an object without getting stressed is harder than rectal!

RE: Thermofocus vet thermometer

Linda Filshie — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 21:22:58 GMT

Oh boo! Thanks anyway :)

RE: Thermofocus vet thermometer

David Mills — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 17:50:10 GMT

Never used one, but evidence suggests they have a poor correlation with rectals in both dogs and cats:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14736904

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25854787

Seem to work well in humans though.