Oxygenation Cardiac

Question 1

What is a pulse?

Answer 1

the blood from each contraction of the heart produces a bulge in the artery (bulge = pulse = heartbeat)

Question 2

What is “Lubb” and “Dubb”?

Answer 2

The 2 parts of the heartbeat
Lubb–> upper chambers of the heart contract to squeeze the blood downward into the ventricles
Dubb–> the lower chambers contract

Question 3

What is the normal pulse for a normal adult?

Answer 3

60-100 beats per minute

Question 4

What do you check when measuring the pulse?

Answer 4

Rate –> fast/slow
Rhythm –> even/irregular
Quality –> weak/bounding