COVID Screening at SRKF
The pandemic is beginning to intensify for a second wave and so the risk of a second shutdown is looming unless proper protocols and safety measures are followed. Silent River Kung Fu’s COVID-19 protocols meet and exceed provincial COVID-19 guidelines and we will continue to lead by example when it comes to providing a safe environment for all our students.
Our focus will continue to be the screening of every student prior to be start of each class. Everyone entering the Kwoon will have their temporal temperature recorded. To be clear, the temperature will be taken temporally with no substitute accepted. If we cannot acquire a student’s temporal temperature, that student will not be eligible to train in the Kwoon. The Livestream option will always be available for everyone to train from home.
Temporal thermometry is a passive technology that measures infrared radiation emitted by arterial blood flow.
When I say passive I mean the thermometer is 100% a receiver and nothing is ever transmitted into its subject. Any conspiracy videos that you have watched on the internet about temporal thermometers harming the brain are false. You will notice that our instructors move the thermometer horizontally across your forehead. This is because the temporal thermometers specifically measure the infrared radiation being emitted by the superficial temporal artery which runs vertically on your forehead. Everyone’s temporal artery is in a different location so traversing the forehead ensures that we actually pick up the temporal artery blood temperature. The reason why the temperature must be taken on your forehead and not your wrist is because unlike the radial artery on your wrist, the temporal artery has stable blood perfusion ensuring a very accurate result. Using the radial (wrist) or other arteries is not as accurate.
To give context to what I have written, clinical technology is in my wheelhouse. I was the lead Biomedical Engineering Technologist in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for over thirty years. If you have any questions or concerns about our COVID-19 protocols and procedures, please reach out to me or one of the other instructors.
Jeff Brinker
