The headline on this FLIR applications story is followed by the tagline:
“Infrared thermography helps to detect and contain the spreading of bird ?u and other viral diseases.”
Since these basic concepts apply equally to many other diseases, this appears to be a rapidly growing application of Infrared Thermography. It is backed up by two recent International standards:
In late 2008, IEC published the standard: IEC 80601-2-59 Ed. 1.0 “Medical electrical equipment – Part 2-59: Particular requirements for the basic safety and essential performance of screening thermographs for human febrile temperature screening” . It provides many performance and calibration requirements for devices used in this application.
In March 2009, the ISO standard, ISO/TR 13154:2009 “Medical electrical equipment — Deployment, implementation and operational guidelines for identifying febrile humans using a screening thermograph”, was published. It bears directly on this use, and while not perfect, does represent a major milestone completed since SPRING Singapore began their effort to create workable standards in 2003.
The standards may be purchased and downloaded online at: www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=51236 and webstore.ansi.org RecordDetail.aspx?sku=IEC+80601-2-59+Ed.+1.0+b%3a2008 respectively.
(Kudos to John Snell of Snell Infrared for advising about the links for the online availability of these standards)
The FLIR story abstract reads: (CLICK HERE to download a PDF copy of the entire story).
Growing international exchange, travel, and economic migration require a consistent, prompt, effective and international viral disease prevention policy.
Elevated human body temperature, or fever, is a convincing and reliable indicator of most human viral infections. Since the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), public health authorities around the world have been looking for a fast,
easy, contactless, non-invasive and reliable method to detect elevated human body temperature di?erences.Thermography is such a method. It has become vital to control body temperature of risk groups such as travellers and proven itself as a monitoring tool that has substantially contributed to reduce the spreading of SARS virus in many countries and regions.
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