Tympanic Ear Probe Covers, Cross-Infection Prevention
Disposable covers for a tympanic thermometer probe, used to prevent cross or re-infection between patients while also helping protect the thermometer itself from everyday wear.
Tympanic Ear Probe Covers are single use covers fitted over the probe tip of a tympanic, or ear, thermometer before it is used to take a patient's temperature. Their essential purpose is infection control, creating a barrier between the thermometer probe and the patient's ear canal so that the same device can be used on the next patient without risk of cross or re-infection.
Because a new cover is fitted for each use and then discarded, clinics, hospitals, care homes and workplace health rooms can move quickly from one patient to the next while maintaining good hygiene practice, without needing to disinfect the probe tip between every reading. The covers are described as very economic in use, keeping the ongoing cost of temperature taking low even in high volume settings such as busy clinics or triage areas.
They also help protect the thermometer itself from wear and contamination, supporting the working life of the device. Tympanic Ear Probe Covers are an essential add-on wherever a tympanic thermometer is in regular clinical or occupational health use.
