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Pulse

The pulse is the beating of the heart that can be felt by palpating an artery.

The pulse can be taken in different places where the arteries are accessible: at the wrist (ulna and radial pulse), neck (carotid pulse), or ankle (posterior tibial pulse, etc.).

To take a pulse, the tips of the fingers (but not the thumb, which has its own artery), are pressed on the arteries in these places.

Useful information to make a diagnosis can be obtained from the frequency, rate, rhythm and amplitude of the beats due to systolic contraction.

Taking the carotid pulse. © Rama, Wikimédia CC by-sa 3.0 Taking the carotid pulse. © Rama, Wikimédia CC by-sa 3.0

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