Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [@heart_lung] The relative simplicity of extending one’s finger onto the tissue overlaying a major artery belies the complicated forces generating an arterial pulse. Descriptions and physiological elucidations have been put forth across the decades, yet even today the machinations relating cardiac contraction to a waxing and waning arterial wall are a bit obstruse. While more detailed analyses are available for the keen reader [1-3], this brief approach will consider a simplified model first proposed well over a century ago.
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: The Pulse
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: The Pulse
ICU Physiology in 1000 Words: The Pulse
Jon-Emile S. Kenny MD [@heart_lung] The relative simplicity of extending one’s finger onto the tissue overlaying a major artery belies the complicated forces generating an arterial pulse. Descriptions and physiological elucidations have been put forth across the decades, yet even today the machinations relating cardiac contraction to a waxing and waning arterial wall are a bit obstruse. While more detailed analyses are available for the keen reader [1-3], this brief approach will consider a simplified model first proposed well over a century ago.