Owner's Manual

Step 1

Slide across forehead.

Place probe ush on

center of forehead and

depress button. Keeping

button depressed slowly

slide probe mid-line across

forehead to the hair line.

Measure only the up-side

on a patient in a lateral

position. The down-

side will be insulated

preventing the heat from

dissipating, resulting in

falsely high readings.

Step 2

Slide behind ear.

Keeping button depressed, lift

probe from forehead, touch

behind ear halfway down the

mastoid process and slide

down to the soft depression

behind the earlobe.

Think of a sweatband.

Measure straight across the

forehead and not down the

side of the face. At mid-line,

the temporal artery is about 2

mm below the surface, but can

go deeply below the surface

on the side of the face.

Step 3

Release button, remove

from head and read.

Minimum measuring time:

2 seconds. Minimum time between successive measurements: 30 seconds

Measure exposed skin.

Brush the hair and bangs

aside if covering the area to

be measured.

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Exergen TAT-5000S