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What is a pulse deficit?
A pulse deficit is the difference in the heart rate and pulse rate when both are checked simultaneously. Pulse deficits are quite often a sign of decreased cardiac output.
What is the pulse deficit if an apical pulse is 122 and a radical pulse is 84?
38
What causes a pulse deficit for an apical pulse?
the pumping of the heart as it is irregular
What is the normal range for pulse deficit?
A pulse deficit is the difference between an actual heart beat and the pulse felt in the wrist or neck. Normal pulse deficits can be felt in someone with a pacemaker.
What is the condition where there is a difference in apical and radial pulse?
The Pulse Deficit
What is a normal pulse deficit?
23-40
What is pulse deficit?
It is the difference in the apical pulse and the radial pulse. These should be taken at the same time, which will require that 2 people take the pulse. One with a stethoscope and one at the wrist. Count for 1 full minute. The subtract the radial from the apical. This is the Pulse Deficit.
Is there a larger pulse deficit in patients with arrhythmia?
yes
What is the difference in value called between apical pulse and arterial pulse?
The apical pulse may be a little bit faster than say a radial pulse because of the slight lag in time as blood rushes from the heart into larger arteries. Any LARGE difference between the values of apical and other pulses observed is called a PULSE DEFICIT. This could indicate a cardiac impairment (i.e. a weakened heart).
In normal conditions is the apical pulse the same as the radial pulse?
NO. the difference between the Apical and Radial pulse is known as the pulse deficit. There should be some difference between the twon.
What conditions may cause the apical and radial pulse to be different from each other?
Please double check this but here is a shot Apical pulse will never be less than the radial pulse. A radial pulse rate less than the apical rate is an example of a pulse deficit, and can be the When_would_an_apical_pulse_be_less_then_radial_pulseof a heart murmur, but the opposite will never occur.
How many seconds should you count the radial pulse?
15 seconds (and then multiply by four, to obtain the pulse rate).
