In immergency one may not have BP checking appratus then this pulse counting may help.
Its mathmatically impossible to determine the systlic and diastic pressures based on heart rate alone. You can tell if someone is hypotensive (low b/p) when palpating (feeling) their pulses either in their neck or groin and its weak or thready. You can barely feeling it when its really low. There are so many factors in determining a persons blood pressure based on their pulse. Fever, heart rate, ambient temperature, and diseases processes all play a factor in a persons blood pressure. Age and genetics are other factors as well just to name a few. Hope this answers your question.
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can’t accurately. if bp is too low to feel pulse in wrist it is under certain number. if bp is toolow to feel pulse in bend of arm, it is under certain number, if bp is too low to feel pulse in carotid, person is almost dead/.
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I am an exercise physiologist and even though this would be very nice it is impossble to calculate blood pressure any other way than using the BP cuff.
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Its mathmatically impossible to determine the systlic and diastic pressures based on heart rate alone. You can tell if someone is hypotensive (low b/p) when palpating (feeling) their pulses either in their neck or groin and its weak or thready. You can barely feeling it when its really low. There are so many factors in determining a persons blood pressure based on their pulse. Fever, heart rate, ambient temperature, and diseases processes all play a factor in a persons blood pressure. Age and genetics are other factors as well just to name a few. Hope this answers your question.
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Emergency Room Nurse
this is not possible, you can calculate your (map) from a blood pressure…….(mean arterial pressure). You can only get a pulse rate by palpating with your fingers, you cant get a blood pressure. However, you can generally tell how well a patient is perfusing their organs by how strong their pulse is. I hope this helps.
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yes, u can count the pulse but not the blood pressure. or may be a weak pulse is an indicator of lbp
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me
What you are asking is mathematically and biologically impossible.
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Not possible sorry.
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would simply add that I agree that this can’t be done, but the reason is not mathematical or biological. It is that these measurements describe different phenomena. Blood pressure measures the maximum and minimum pressure generated by your heart forcing blood down the pipes. Pulse describes how often that happens.
Would be like trying to measure how much water flowed out of a dam by only timing how fast someone went when floating on the surface. That would just be part of the answer.
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two cents.
Really you can’t.It is only a good quess.
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These answers are mostly right, but as an ARMY medic for 6 years and a paramedic for 4, I believe i can some what help answer the question your trying to ask, I think …
You can not get an exact BP (blood pressure) by palpating(feeling) a pulse, how ever you can roughly estimate the systolic pressure ( this is the top number on a BP, this is the pressure in your arteries when your heart contracts) by where you can feel a pulse i.e.
radial pulse(wrist) >90mm/hg
bracial pulse (bicept) >80mm/hg
carotid pulse (neck) >60mm/hg
pedal pulse ( foot) >100mm/hg
femoral pulse (groin) >70mm/hg
so for example if i feel a pulse on someones wrist i know the top number is 90 or above, if i feel a pulse on the neck and not one on the wrist i know the top number is between 90 and 60. if no pulse on the neck the top number is below 60. There is no was to feel a pulse and know what the bottom number is however that can only be done with a bp.
And yes what I have all written is been proven, the military and ambulance personnel have been using this knowledge for years. hope this helps please excuse the spelling.
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Mosby paramedic book for prehospital providers, several military medical field guides and manuals