You determine a radial pulse is readily palpable at the radial artery and has uneven intervals between beats. This should BEST be documented on the prehospital care report as:
A) strong and irregular.
B) thready and regular.
C) prominent and bounding.
D) bounding and regular.
Question 2
You have been called to assess a conscious and alert five-year-old whose chief complaint is nausea and vomiting for the past two hours. When assessing his pulse, you should FIRST check which pulse?
A) Brachial
B) Carotid
C) Radial
D) Pedal
Use of fluorescent molecules by Lowenstein and colleagues to determine the size of gap-junction chan
Pulse oximetry. The small device provides a digital readout of oxygen levels in the blood.
Left coronary artery (only seen if auricle is open)
A health care professional taking a radial pulse and common pulse points.
Operation of a typical pulse generator (pickup coil). At the bottom is a line drawing of a typical ...
Palpating the carotid artery