Education Officer (Backstop 60), FS-2. US Agency for International Development (USAID) Worldwide; Apply by 10 March 2010; Mid-level; Posted on 19 May 2009
A rapid or fast heartbeat is when your heart is beating faster than normal. A normal heart rate is 60 to 100 beats per minute. Tachycardia is considered a heart rate of greater than 100 beats per minute. If you are exercising, or performing any kind of activity, your heart will normally beat faster.
The pulse is the number of heartbeats per minute. The pulse is what you feel over an artery as the pressure inside increases following each heart beat. The average pulse rate is between 60-80 beats per minute. Each time the heart beats, blood is pumped into the arteries.As the blood surges into the arteries during a heart beat, each artery stretches and bulges. This brief bulge of the artery is called a pulse.he average pulse rate is between 60-80 beats per minute. Each time the heart beats, blood is pumped into the arteries. As the blood surges into the arteries during a heart beat, each artery stretches and bulges. This brief bulge of the artery is called a pulse.