Care of the injured and sick. Pulse and respiration monitoring

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Care of the injured and sick. Pulse and respiration monitoring

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The work of the patient's heart is controlled by palpation pulse on the palmar surface of the forearm from the side of the thumb (on the radial artery) (Fig. 75). It is necessary to learn how to find the pulse in this place and count its frequency per minute. If a healthy person has a pulse rate of 70-80 beats per minute, then in an accident victim and a patient it can change dramatically, reaching 120 or more beats per minute.

The nature of the pulse also matters: the weakness of the beats, when it is still felt, the presence of different time intervals between beats (arrhythmic pulse). The normal respiratory rate of 16-18 times per minute may vary in patients. Breath may become more frequent, become irregular, noisy. There may be a cough with sputum (mucous, purulent, blood-streaked, bloody, with a fetid odor). It is necessary to tell the doctor what kind of sputum it has, and collect it in a jar for examination.

Care of the injured and sick. Pulse and respiration monitoring

Rice. 75. The position of the fingers when probing the pulse

Authors: Aizman R.I., Krivoshchekov S.G.

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