Medical Assistant Prep / Unit 12 MAS 285 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Pulse Rate by Age
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The idea
Normal heart rate varies with age, and it is fastest in the youngest patients.
In practice
The reference ranges run from about one hundred to one hundred sixty beats a minute in newborns, to eighty to one hundred forty in infants, to sixty to one hundred in adolescents and adults.
Where people slip
A rate normal for an infant would be very fast for an adult.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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