The measurement of the temperature at the entrance to some structures or hospitals is a universally adopted measure in prevention strategies. There are two questions: considering the high number of asymptomatic patients, potentially contagious paucisymptomatic, does it really make sense to adopt this device? Secondly, in severe cases, could adopting the COVID-19 protocol based on temperature alone lead to cases of medical responsibility in the presence of diseases where time is a factor or the main outcome factor?
really I see this in many sites, I think it cant be useful as anyone even who have high temp may be in his car using AC and this may interfere with measuring also consider asymptomatic patient
It is a very poor performing measure. In a representative population of patients with COVID in ambulatory settings, we identified it in less than 40% of patients with confirmed COVID at the time of initial presentation.
This probably more of self satisfaction for the institution doing the screening than really being effective in picking up pts who are likely to spread the virus. Temperature alone has a low sensitivity for picking Covid-19 careers or floridly ill pts.
Measurement of temperature is a very poor screening tool for COVID-19.
Matteo Nioi
You have raised a question which is asked to me at least once in a day by my students. This question should ideally be answered by a man from the world of medicine and biology. I am from the world of business administration, which is a sub head of administration. I know I should not be answering this question, considering my domain, but still I am trying to answer this.
Matteo Nioi no administrative effort of man is perfect. Probably that is why no country in the world is ever perfect. All administrative policies have loopholes. That is why, policies have to go through constant evolution. If man had the capacity to develop policies without loopholes, then probably the word 'evolution' would have never existed. So to measure body temperature also is a policy that has been adopted in almost every country as a protective measure. It does not give you 100% accuracy. It cannot. It cannot because it is a human creation. All human creations are filled with faults and there is nothing perfect in this world.
Regarding your second question, once again, I would say the same answer. Human life, the civilizations, the developments ... all are stories of trial and error method. When it comes to COVID-19, man is a novice. He knows nothing. Under the circumstances, man is just trying to use the trial and error method and find out a solution. I think this will go on till man comes up with a permanent solution of COVID-19.
Stay safe. Keep the world safe. If you are safe, I will also be safe. If you are not safe, I will also be unsafe. We are all connected.
Lets all make an effort to see that this period of trial and error comes to an end.
Thank you for the great question.
Best regards,
Anamitra.
This may really work for symptomatic patients as one of the symptoms of the virus.
Very interesting answers by all.
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It can be useful since symptomatic subjects are the most contagious positive patients !
It may not detect very accurately but it is quite useful for primary clinical and feasible easy mass screening.
I would say yes. It is a screening test after all. It is non-invasive, quick, and doesn't require much expertise to perform. The real question is : how much sensitive? We need to look for this. As Claudia Denkinger mentioned, only 40% in cases with confirmed infection. The number to look for is what percentage among a group of people visiting a place, not necessarily a hospital. This number would decide if it is suitable as a screening test.
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