Sunday, October 17, 2010

What is the difference between pulse and heartbeat?

What is the difference between pulse and heartbeat?
A pulse can be felt within several parts of your body . It can be radial (near the wrist), femoral (in the legs), carotid (in the neck), or brachial (in the arms). It is the beating blood pressure created through the artery depending on how your heart beat and status of your blood vessels whther is it constricted or dilated
A heartbeat is feel in the chest. Usually hear as "lup dub". This is heard when the heart completes a integral cardiac cycle
i am not going to use any hifi terms, in truth pulse is present cause of heartbeat and is feel in different parts of the body though may enjoy varing sounds
A pulse is the result of a heartbeat but a pulse is palpated at locations other than where on earth the heart is. Some of these pulse spots have aready be identified - radial, ulnar, carotid, femoral, popliteal, pedal, tibial. There's even a pulse in the thumb. It's resembling an echo of the heartbeat.
The heartbeat is the "horse's mouth" so to speak. It's the nouns of contractions that are auscultated directly over the heart by stethoscope, by Doppler transducer or by placing the ear against the chest wall.

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