The Air Reserve is an important part of the Air Force Team. Reservists are ordinary citizens who volunteer to devote a portion of their free time to military service. In the Air Force, Reservists serve as partners with members of the Regular Force to accomplish the Air Force mission.
1 One of most common arteries for counting your pulse are the radial artery, located on the inside of the wrist near the side of your thumb. 2  Another common place to take your pulse is the carotid artery, found on the neck between the wind pipe and neck muscle.
You can have a patient who, on assessment, has a pulse rate of 60 beats per minute when measured at the radial pulse. However, when you connect the patient to an ECG their heart rate can be massively elevated, to say, 180bpm. Therefore the heart rate is 180bpm but the pulse rate is 60bpm. They are different. Without doing an ECg on a patient like thie you might record the Pulse rate as 60bpm, strong and regular but the actual heart muscle is contracting at 180bpm.