Is a pulse rate the same as a heart rate?
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BobDVolunteer
Yes . What you feel at the pressure point where you take your pulse is the blood surging with every heart beat. This is the ventricular beat as the left ventricle contracts and forces the blood out into your arteries. The atrium may be fibrillating at a quite different rate of course.
Bob
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