Validation of a new telemetric core temperature monitor

摘要

The purpose of this study was to validate the accuracy and acceptability of the new VitalSense(R) telemetric physiological monitoring system (Mini Mitter Co., Inc., Bend, OR). It consists of a receiver/monitor and a thermistor-based ingestible capsule for core body temperature measurement. For comparison, each subject was also monitored with a standard thermistor probe inserted 11 cm beyond the anal sphincter (Mini-Logger(R) Series 2000). Both the measurement systems have specified accuracy of +/- 0.1 degreesC.