Here's exactly what happens every time your heart beats 🫀 It starts with an electrical signal from the SA node — your heart's natural pacemaker. That signal tells your atria to contract, pushing blood down into the ventricles. Then the ventricles contract (ventricular systole): 🫀 Right ventricle → pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs 🫀 Left ventricle → pumps oxygen-rich blood to the rest of your body After that, the heart enters diastole — a brief relaxation where the chambers refill and pre

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APICAL PULSE 🫀🩺

Can you find them all? 👀 Let me know which pulse point was the hardest to feel in the comments! One quick clarification: I said the neck isn’t always the correct place to check a pulse because it depends on the situation. The carotid pulse is excellent for quickly confirming whether someone has a heartbeat, especially in an unresponsive patient. But if you’re assessing an injured arm or leg, you need to check a pulse below the injury to determine whether that extremity is still receiving blood