Health Sciences · Hospital for Sick Children · Hospital for Sick Children · UTSIC
A small (19 cm wide), grey, and rectangular metal instrument with a preeminent dial on its front face that is framed in black plastic. That face has a knurled fastener at each of its four corners and three jacks to the left of the dial (from the viewer’s perspective). To the right of the dial are a knob and a metal switch.
This artifact has a chip in the bottom left corner of the dial’s plastic frame.
Accession Number: 2024.sk.4
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Primary Materials: Iron Aloy, Plastic
A green servicing label on the top surface from HSC Medical Engineering includes the following information: Date “Feb 21/05 Due: Feb 21/ 06// Local: 7094, Tech: “JR”
A white label on the top surface reads: “D1052”
There are illegible black in marks on both sides.
Dimensions (cm): Height = 12, Width = 19, Length = 8.5,
This instrument is used to display temperature as recorded from the tip of a probe. Temperature change can be recorded over time by attaching a recording instrument.
This example was likely used to regularly or continuously obtain accurate body temperatures of anesthetized patients.
This artifact has substantial wear on its outer surfaces, especially on on the edges. There are heavy scratches on the top surface; There is a chip in the bottom left corner of the dial’s plastic frame. This artifact does not have its temperature sensing probe.
2016.zoo.35 (This is a similar, likely later version of this instrument that includes a temperature probe).
YSI [Yellow Springs Instrument] Inc., Yellow Springs, Ohio, USA
Date of Manufacture: Mid-to-late 20th c.
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