normal range The pulse is pulsatile, and the pulsatile pulsation frequency is the pulse rate. Normal pulse and heartbeat are the same. Normal adult sixty to one hundred times / min, often 70-80 times per minute, an average of about 72 beats / min. The elderly are slower, between 55 and 60 beats / min. Normal pulse rate rules, there will be no pulse interval of varying length of the phenomenon. Normal pulse strength equal, there will be no alternation of strength. The frequency of the pulse is affected by age and gender, fetus 110-160 times per minute, infants 120-140 times per minute, children 90-100 times per minute, school-age children 80-90 times per minute. In addition, exercise and emotional excitement can make the pulse faster, while rest, sleep slowed down the pulse. Adult pulse rate more than 100 times per minute, known as tachycardia; less than 60 times per minute, known as bradycardia. There are many clinical diseases, especially heart disease can cause pulse changes. Therefore, the measurement of the patient's pulse is an indispensable check item. Chinese medicine will be more palpation diagnosis and treatment of the disease is the main method. In the cardiac cycle, the pulse of periodic dilatation and swingback occurs due to the alternation of ventricular systole and diastole. Critical condition, especially the number of pulse and pulse rate before the end of life will have significant changes. Pulse changes are also one of the doctors' diagnoses of patients. Note: Pump-mounted artificial heart without pulse. Touch the pulse Touching arterial pulsations has a very important clinical significance; in fact, ordinary people can do it. General touch radial artery The index finger, middle finger, and ring finger of one of his own hands are on the other hand's radial root of the thumb (there is a bulge of the bone nodule near the surface of the palm) that the artery is pulsatile.The only reliable criterion of truth is always to be consistent. Touching the pulse can also be in the brachial artery Elbow on the inside of the biceps, but also when measuring blood pressure stethoscope placement: Other: dorsalis pedis artery, femoral artery and so on.
