DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Recently, while walking on my home treadmill, I stepped off to check my pulse. Normally a walk like the one I was taking would raise it to 110. I did so by pressing two fingers ...

Carotid Artery Pulses Next, palpate between the SCM and the trachea to feel the carotid artery pulse. Have the patient turn slightly toward you to relax the neck muscles.

The normal apical pulse rate of an adult is 60 to 100 beats. Another common place to take your pulse is the carotid artery, found on the neck between the wind pipe and neck muscle.

A double pulse is felt due to the backflow of blood in early diastole. The first carotid pulse felt is normal systole, while the second is actually early diastolic due to the regurgitating blood.

A prospective study of the heart murmurs in 30 elderly patients, none of whom had a history of rheumatic heart disease, was undertaken by use of phonocardiography, carotid-pulse recording and amyl ...

Assessed manifestations of vascular aging included carotid artery properties (carotid intima-media thickness, Young’s elastic modulus, carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, carotid pulse wave ...

Others recommended subtracting the distance between the suprasternal notch to the carotid location from the total distance when the carotid pulse pressure is recorded instead of the aortic arch ...

The pulse you feel in your temples is coming from the superficial temporal artery which is a branch of the external carotid artery. If the pulse is accompanied by pain, consult with your doctor ...

Magnetic field fluctuations detect arterial pulse 13 Oct 2017 Zaibaa Patel Proposed device for local PWV measurement Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras have proposed a ...