Bounding Pulse

In medicine, Pulse is the throbbing persons arteries as an effect of the heart beat. Pulse can be felt in any place that allows for an artery to be compressed against a bone, such as at the neck (carotid artery), at the wrist (radial artery), behind the knee (popliteal artery), on the inside of the elbow (brachial artery), and near the ankle joint (posterior tibial artery). It can also be measured by measuring the heart beats directly (the apical pulse).Strong and forceful pulse is refers as pulse bounding. It is a term which often used medically. When heart beating rate is faster than normal, it may accompany a bounding pulse.

There are many symptoms associated with pulse bounding. Weakness and fatigue are the big symptoms of pulse bounding. Patient often feels weakness in many parts of its body. Pulse bounding affects the lungs and patient feels difficulty in breathing. Muscles become weak due to strong pulse. There are some other symptoms which cause bounding pulse like palpitation, respiratory distress and headache. Patient cannot digest food due to this disease. Persons skin is very sensitive and many skin problem results in pulse bounding. Another major symptom of pulse bounding is heart rhythm which originates electricity in ventricles.

Some possible causes of pulse bounding are Berry berry aneurysm, Aortic regurgitation, Arterio venous shunt, Hypercapnia, Febrile disorder and chronic aortic insufficiency. Sometime bounding pulse causes due to Anemia which refers to a low red blood cell count. Patent ductus arteriosus is another cause of bounding pulse in which blood vessels in the body becomes fatal. Many times this disease happened due to fever and sometimes in pregnancy, There are some other causes which likely increase the pulse rate are acute alcoholism arotic inefficiency, Cirhossis and thyrotoxicosis.

Blood studies (CBC or blood differential), ECG, Echocardiogram and X-rays of the chest must performed for the treatment of this disease. During x-ray of the chest rays pass through the chest from the back (posterior-anterior view), and from one side to the other. An electrocardiogram (ECG) test records the electrical activity of the heart. It also measures the rate and regularity of heartbeats as well as the size and position of the chambers. Echocardiogram is a test that uses sound waves to create a moving picture of the heart that involves no radiation exposure.