Pulse Facts

Your pulse is the powerful high-pressure surge or wave that runs through your blood and vessels as the heart contracts strongly with each beat.
You can feel your pulse by pressing two fingertips on the inside of your wrist where the radial artery nears the surface.
Other pulse points include the carotid artery in the neck and the brachial artery inside the elbow.
Checking the pulse is a good way of finding out how healthy someone is, which is why doctors do it. 270
Normal pulse rates vary between 50 and 100 beats a minute. The average for a man is about 71, for a woman it is 80, and for children it is about 85.
Tachycardia is the medical word for an abnormally fast heartbeat.
Someone who has tachycardia when sitting down may have drunk too much coffee or tea, or taken drugs, or be suffering from anxiety or a fever, or have heart disease.
Bradycardia is an abnormally slow heartbeat rate.
Arrhythmia is any abnormality in a person’s heartbeat rate.
Anyone with a heart problem may be connected to a machine called an electrocardiogram (ECG) to monitor (watch) their heartbeat.

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