Your thumb also has a pulse so you could be counting your own pulse beats per minute.
the thumb is never used because the thumb also has its own beat, so you could potentially be counting your own beat instead of the other persons. Also if you take your own pulse by your own thumb, you may be overlapping the counting of the beat
We take our pulse with our fingers instead of our thumbs because our thumbs have their own pulse so you could get confused i guess :) ... im only in grade seven and i know that :) im not bragging just telling you, you should know
the thumb, because it has its own pulse so cannot be used.
You should never take a manual pulse with your thumb because of the chance of picking up your own pulse from the blood vessels in your thumb.
never
The Radial artery is used when taking a persons pulse.
Your thumb has its own pulse so it shouldn't be used to take your pulse.
apical pulse is actually the heartbeat
You can actually feel your own heartbeat in your thumb. You wouldnt get a correct pulse if you feel your heartbeat on the patient
Count pulse
False, because the apical pulse is the heartbeat and is heard with a stethoscope. The sphygmomanometer is used to take the pulse on the arm.
they don't have thumbs