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Hypothermia

How Hypothermia Is Diagnosed

Hypothermia is both a medical condition as well as the description of an abnormal vital sign (low body temperature). In theory, diagnosing hypothermia should be fairly straightforward: Take a temperature and if it is below a defined threshold, the patient has hypothermia.

In reality, not all thermometers are the same and taking temperatures in different parts of the body will produce different values.

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