Abstract
As a researcher who has been involved in temperature measurement studies for over a decade it was with concern that I read the article by Childs et al. in the February edition of your journal. The comment by these authors that ‘…the mouth…is not ideal for temperature measurement in intubated patients,…’ leads me to believe that they are not abreast with the literature in this area. There have been multiple studies over the last 20 years published in peer reviewed journals, including a state-of-the-science review published in 2000, to support the use of this site in patients who are orally intubated. Further, the evidence indicates that neither the temperature of the gases flowing witihin the oral tracheal tube nor the lack of a tight seal around the tube by patients significantly affect the measurements. I trust that your readers will be informed of this misinformation and that a correction will be issued in an upcoming issue of Anaesthesia.
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