What is the difference between a pulse and a heart beat?
Your pulse is your heart rate, or the number of times your heart beats in one minute. Pulse rates vary from person to person. Your pulse is lower when you are at rest and increases when you exercise (more oxygen-rich blood is needed by the body when you exercise).
Why is pulse rate higher than heart rate?
Your heart rate is separate from your blood pressure. That’s the force of your blood against the walls of your blood vessels. A faster pulse doesn’t necessarily mean higher blood pressure. When your heart speeds up, like when you exercise, your blood vessels should expand to let more blood pass through.
What is a dangerous pulse rate?
According to Mayo Clinic, a dangerous heart rate is a resting heart rate below 60 beats per minute and above 100 beats per minute. The condition tachycardia refers to a pulse rate above 100 beats per minute, while the condition bradycardia refers to one below 60 beats per minute.
What pulse qualities are assessed?
The pulse rhythm, rate, force, and equality are assessed when palpating pulses. The normal pulse rhythm is regular, meaning that the frequency of the pulsation felt by your fingers follows an even tempo with equal intervals between pulsations.
What your heart rate is telling you?
Your resting heart rate can tell you a lot. It can reflect your level of fitness, the air temperature, the altitude, how recently you ate and how many cups of coffee you drank this morning. A high resting heart rate can also signal whether you are at risk for atherosclerosis, sudden death or cardiovascular disease.
What causes high blood pressure and high pulse rate?
Heart ailments such as coronary heart diseases, hypertension (high blood pressure), pericarditis, congenital heart diseases, aortic regurgitation, etc., are likely to give rise to a higher pulse rate. The hardening of arteries or the faulty heart valves lead to difficulty in pumping, thereby increasing the pulse rate.