Gotta say good bye....

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to my old faithful thermometer. :( This is my back up to my welchAllyn. I have had it for over 11 yrs. Button to turn it off and on broke.

Will have to look for a new one.

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Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

Just happened to me too. My back up ear thermometer just stopped working. No idea how old it is, because I inherited it, but it was pretty well loved. I ordered a new Braun and am still gettting used to it.

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i was just looking in the catalogue yesterday. My trusty braun pro scan 4000 (the decider when my vera temp can't make up it's mind) is starting to show it's age - but it's discontinued - and i have about a dozen boxes of probe covers to get through. Anyone have the proscan 6000? Do the older probe covers work with it or did they re-design everything? They make a point to say it won't take an "unauthorized probe cover" in the specs.

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You scared me.

I thought we were losing you!!!

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Specializes in Home Health,Dialysis, MDS, School Nurse.

I just got the Proscan 6000 and tried to use the probe covers from my old thermoscan pro-1 (which I believe came over on the mayflower) and it was a no go. Luckily I only had 2 boxes of covers left. Not sure if the 4000 would be any closer in design or not.

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Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.
(which I believe came over on the mayflower)

BWHAHAHH!! But this brings up a thought: is there any best practice about when to retire things like thermometers and wheelchairs? I mean, I buy new glucometers every other year, mostly because they're cheap and I dont' want to calibrate.

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You scared me.

I thought we were losing you!!!

Awe.. Thank you.

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