Your thumb has its own pulse so it shouldn't be used to take your pulse.
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.
the thumb, because it has its own pulse so cannot be used.
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.
This site is called a pulse point. There are ten sites that are used.
Left hand
No, a sphygmomanometer is not used to take the apical pulse. Instead, it is a device used to measure blood pressure by determining the pressure in the arteries. The apical pulse is measured by listening to the heart sounds at the apex of the heart, usually with a stethoscope.
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
Your thumb also has a pulse so you could be counting your own pulse beats per minute.
radial
The Radial artery is used when taking a persons pulse.
It should be performed immediately after identifying that the patient is experiencing a cardiac emergency, has no pulse, and is unresponsive.
Use the AED when the pulse is confirmed absent.