SV: Pulse rate may differ between pulse positions?

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Phil,

 

This is a situation I have seen often with my students in pulse-taking

classes. If the pulse is energetically weak, it actually SEEMS to be more

rapid, if the energy in the pulse is strong, the pulse SEEMS to be more

slow. Of course this is an illusion.

 

 

 

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Emne: Pulse rate may differ between pulse positions?

 

 

 

Hi All,

 

I am confused about this:

> " I'm thinking that perhaps this opens up the possibility that there is

> a value to counting breaths per beat because taking longer to access,

> it allows the subjective element to have the possibility of one

> perceiving a faster pulse, therefore heat, in one position as opposed

> to another. "

 

I was taught that HEART rate = PULSE rate. Therefore, I cannot understand

how pulse rate (in any specific time) could differ from one pulse-position

to

another.

 

An exception (of course) would be if an artery were fully blocked. In that

case, no pulse would be felt distal to the block.

 

Am I missing something?

 

Best regards,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Just food for thought - I believe one of the descriptors from the

classics states about a slippery pulse is that it 'seems rapid, but is

not'. Perhaps if one side is slippery and the other is not, you might

run into a similar situation as Are describes below.

 

Geoff

 

, " Are Thoresen "

<arethore wrote:

>

> Phil,

>

> This is a situation I have seen often with my students in pulse-taking

> classes. If the pulse is energetically weak, it actually SEEMS to be

more

> rapid, if the energy in the pulse is strong, the pulse SEEMS to be more

> slow. Of course this is an illusion.

>