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How does one find a radial pulse?
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Feel you wrist: Radial pulse is your heart rate felt in the radial artery -at the wrist on the thumb side. Count the number of beats in 15 seconds & multiply by 4.
Answered 3/31/2016
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With finger tip: Put finger tip over the palmer surface of the wrist over the thumb a palpable pulse should be felt. Count the numbers of beats in 60 seconds. That number is your pulse rate.
Answered 8/2/2012
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