GROSS ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -The pulse can be measured using the radial artery in the wrist or the carotid artery in the neck. Heart rates vary from person to person.

Detailed explanation-2: -As we have said, the blood is not being pushed back by the heart and so it has Low Pressure and fairly smooth Flow when you are lying down at rest. It is for these 2 reasons that veins do not Pulsate – which is why you can’t feel a pulse in the veins – only in the arteries.

Detailed explanation-3: -As the vessels that are closest to the heart, arteries must contend with intense physical pressure from the blood moving forcibly through them. They pulse with each heartbeat (which is why your pulse is taken from an artery) and have thicker walls.

Detailed explanation-4: -A bounding pulse is a strong throbbing felt over one of the arteries in the body. It is due to a forceful heartbeat. The carotid arteries take oxygenated blood from the heart to the brain. The pulse from the carotids may be felt on either side of thefront of the neck just below the angle of the jaw.

Detailed explanation-5: -carotid pulse: brachial pulse-a third of the way over from the medial condyle. radial pulse-medial to the radius. femoral pulse-below inguinal ligament; a third of the way up from pubic tubercle. popliteal pulse-with knee flexed at right angles palpate deep in the midline. More items