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Some possible reasons you will need the apical heart rate, evaluated at the heart's apex, might include:

  • difficult to obtain a wrist pulse
  • too low pulse rate, which should immediately require an apical
  • faint heart rate
  • too fast pulse rate, which should immediately require an apical
  • irregular pulse, which should immediately require an apical
  • a person with injuries to both arms
  • a person without arms, example, below / above elbow amputee
  • medication reaction disrupts pulse rate, which should immediately require an apical
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