apical pulse - vital signs

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instrument used

stethoscope for listening to internal body sounds

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stethoscope

earpieces, tubing, bell or thin flexible disk called a diaphragm

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cleaning

disinfectant before and after every use

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who is it used for 

irregular heartbeats, hardening of the arties or weak or rapid radial pulses, children and infants 

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heartbeat sounds 

lub-dub caused by closing of the heart valves as blood flows through the chambers of the heart

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pulse deficit

difference between the rate of an apical pulse and the rate of a radial pulse  

condition that occurs with some heart conditions like when the heart is weak or the heart beats too fast

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calculate pulse deficit

apical pulse - radial pulse