Please help!!!!?

Question

can someone tell me how take a radial pulse ? how to count ,everything.......please.

Answer 1

Take 2 fingers (not your thumb because it has a pulse!) place them on your left wrist until you feel the pulse, count how many beats it 15 seconds then times that by 4 to get the correct heart rate.

Answer 2

Radial Pulse: This is probably what we're most familiar with when visiting the doctor's office. Take two fingers, preferably the 2nd and 3rd finger, and place them in the groove in the wrist that lies beneath the thumb. Move your fingers back and forth gently until you can feel a slight pusation - this is the pulse of the radial artery which delivers blood to the hand. Don't press too hard, or else you'll just feel the blood flowing through your fingers! You can even use your thumb.

Count the beats for a full 60 seconds. Notice whether the pulse is strong or weak. Write down the rate and the date, time, and wrist (right or left) used to take the pulse. Also make a note of anything else you noticed (for example, weakness, strength, or missing beats).

Answer 3

The radial artery arises from the bifurcation of the brachial artery in the cubital fossa. It runs distally down the anterior part of the forearm. There, it serves as a landmark for the division between the anterior and posterior compartments of the forearm, with the posterior compartment beginning just lateral to the artery. The artery winds laterally around the wrist, passing through the anatomical snuff box and between the heads of the first dorsal interosseous muscle. It passes anteriorly between the heads of the adductor pollicis, and becomes the deep palmar arch, which joins with the deep branch of the ulnar artery.

Along its course, it is accompanied by a similarly named vein, the radial vein.