A client with severe bleeding due to a motor vehicle accident was admitted to the emergency department. The nurse assessed that
the client was unconscious and the healthcare provider diagnosed the client with a hand fracture. The client is receiving oxygen therapy as well as intravenous fluids through the antecubital fossa. Which sites should be used to obtain the client’s pulse rate? Select all that apply
In order to calculate the clients pulse rate we can ue the carotid artery which easire place to chck would be right in the neck, this is because it has not been crompromised by the fractured hand nor the intravenous fluids through the antecubital fossa, so that would be the best option, another option that we have woul be femoral, if it is not compromised by another injury or the popliteal, the only one that we shouldn´t use would be the brachial because that would be compromised by the known injury, and the apical we can check with an stetoscope.
