How To Use; Warnings And Precautions - Braun Age Precision PRT 2000 User Manual

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Description
(See page 3)
1. Measuring sensor
2. Extra gentle fl exible tip
3. On/Off button (side)
4. Age Precision™ button
5. Large display with colour-coded indicator lights
6. Battery compartment cover (back)
7. Protective cap

Warnings and precautions

• Your Braun Digital Thermometer is a 3-in-1 thermometer suitable for underarm, oral or rectal use.
Whichever method is used, it is recommended, for 15 minutes prior to use, to avoid eating or
drinking any liquids, exercising, taking showers or baths, or smoking.
• This thermometer is intended for household use only. This product is not intended to diagnose
any disease, but is a useful screening tool for temperature. Use of this thermometer is not
intended as a substitute for consultation with your physician.
• The Age Precision™ feature is not intended for pre-term babies or small-for-gestational age
babies.
• The Age Precision™ feature is not intended to interpret hypothermic temperatures.
• Please consult your physician if the thermometer shows elevated temperature. High, prolonged
fever requires medical attention, especially for young children.
• Parents/guardians should call the physician upon noticing any untoward sign(s) or symptom(s).
For example, a child who exhibits irritability, vomiting, diarrhea, dehydration, changes in appetite
or activity, even in the absence of fever, or who exhibits a low temperature, may still need to
receive medical attention. Children who are on antibiotics, analgesics, or antipyretics should not
be assessed solely on temperature readings to determine the severity of their illness.
• Temperature elevation as indicated by Age Precision™ may signal a serious illness, especially in
neonates and infants, or adults who are old, frail, have a weakened immune system. Please seek
professional advice immediately when there is a temperature elevation and if you are taking
temperature for:
- Neonates and infants under 3 months. Consult your physician immediately if the temperature
exceeds 37.4 °C (or 99.4 °F).
- Patients over 60 years of age. Fever may be blunted or even absent in elderly patients.
- Patients having diabetes mellitus or a weakened immune system (e.g. HIV positive, cancer
chemotherapy, chronic steroid treatment, splenectomy).
- Patients who are bedridden (e.g. nursing home patient, stroke, chronic illness, recovering from
surgery).
- A transplant patient (e.g. liver, heart, lung, kidney).
• Do not allow children under 12 to take their temperatures unattended.
• Do not allow children to walk or run during temperature taking.
• This thermometer contains small parts that can be swallowed or produce a choking hazard to
children. Always keep the thermometer out of children's reach.
• Do not modify this equipment without authorization of the manufacturer.
• Manufacturing date is given by the LOT number located at the back of the thermometer. The fi rst
three (3) digits represent the Julian date that the product was manufactured , and the next two
(2) digits represent the last two numbers of the calendar year the product was manufactured.
The last identifi ers are the letters that represent the manufacturer.
• An example: 11614fam implies this product has been manufactured on the 116th day of the
year 2014.
• Consumer Card available on our website at www.hot-europe.com/after-sales
• Please see last page of this manual to fi nd the contact for the Kaz Authorized Service Center in
your country.
What is new about Braun Age Precision
• Clinical research shows the defi nition of fever changes with age
normal body temperature in a 4-year-old may be regarded as a fever in a newborn. Braun's
Age Precision™ Thermometer is an age adjustable thermometer with a colour-coded display. It
uses medical guidelines to interpret temperature and takes the guesswork out of interpreting
temperature for the entire family.
• Temperature readings vary depending on the site of measurement. An oral temperature is
generally 0.1 °C higher than underarm (axillary) temperature and rectal temperature is generally
0.6 °C higher than underarm temperature
Braun's Age Precision™ feature is optimized for underarm temperature taking.
• Temperature readings vary from person to person. The best method to determine your own
normal temperature is to use the thermometer when you are feeling well. Record your reading
twice a day (early morning and late afternoon). Take the average of the two temperatures. This is
considered your normal body temperature. Any variation from it may indicate some sort of illness
and you should consult your physician.
It is important to remember fever is a symptom, not a disease, and is just one of the many possible
signs of illness. If your child exhibits signs of a serious illness, contact your physician.
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How to use your Braun Age Precision
3 Simple Steps:
1. Switch on the thermometer by pressing the On/Off button
You will hear a short beep and display segment check will be performed. After the segment
check, last temperature reading will be displayed for 2 seconds. Subsequently, the age icons and
age range will cycle, until the Age Precision™ button is pressed.
2. Select the age by pressing the Age Precision™ button
When the Age Precision™ button is pressed, the age range icons will stop cycling, and stop on the
age range icon that was showing when the button was pressed. Keep pressing the button until
the desired age setting is displayed. The thermometer has 3 age settings:
• 0-3 months
• 3-36 months
• 36 months up to an adult
After the age is selected, the age range icon remains steadily lit.
The display will show three dashed lines and the thermometer
is ready to start the measurement.
3. Take the measurement by placing it on the measurement site.
Once temperature rise is detected by thermometer in measurement mode, it will begin to
measure.
If the thermometer doesn't measure a temperature rise, the age icon and three dashed lines will
be shown until the thermometer automatically turns off .
After measurement (generally 8 seconds after temperature change is detected), the confi rmation
beep indicates that an accurate temperature measurement has been taken: 1 long beep for
normal temperature, 10 short beeps for elevated and high temperature. The result will be shown
on the display. Interpret the reading with the help of the colour-coded display that uses medical
guidelines to interpret temperature based on patient's age.
Note: Users have to shut down the thermometer and start up again to take another measurement
and/or change age setting. The Braun Age Precision™ Thermometer turns off automatically 20
seconds after the measurement or after 90 seconds without measurement.
Reading the measurement with Age Precision™ colour-coded display
Braun Age Precision™ colour-coded display that off ers a colour indication along with the
temperature readout and helps you better understand the temperature reading based on patient's
age. The associated colour will display 5 sec after the temperature reading was completed.
- Green backlight indicates Normal
- Yellow backlight indicates Elevated
- Red backlight indicates High temperature
The Age Precision™ colour-coded display for interpreting of fever has been designed for use in the
underarm mode only according to the table below.
Green
Site Age range
Normal temperature
0-3 Months
35.7 – 37.3 °C
3-36 Months 35.3 – 37.4 °C
36 Months-
35.3 – 37.4 °C
adult
If you use the thermometer in the oral or rectal mode by placing it at those sites, please do not use
the display lights programmed into the thermometer for determining fever. Instead, refer to the oral
and rectal tables respectively as shown below to determine if you have a fever.
Normal tempera-
Site Age range
ture
0-3 Months
35.8 – 37.4 °C
3-36 Months 35.4 – 37.6 °C
36 Months-
35.4 – 37.7 °C
adult
0-3 Months
36.3 – 37.9 °C
3-36 Months 35.9 – 38.1 °C
36 Months-
35.9 – 38.2 °C
adult
Note: Due to human physiology, temperature measurements taken from diff erent sites on the
same person show variability. For example, rectal readings tend to run higher than oral as well as
underarm readings taken from the same person.
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temperature
Yellow Red
Elevated temperature High temperature
37.5 – 38.4 °C
37.5 – 39.4 °C
Elevated temperature High temperature
37.7 – 38.5 °C
37.8 – 39.4 °C
38.2 – 39.0 °C
38.3 – 39.9 °C
> 37.3 °C
> 38.4 °C
> 39.4 °C
> 37.4 °C
> 38.5 °C
> 39.4 °C
> 37.9 °C
> 39.0 °C
> 39.9 °C
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