Pulse - bounding

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Pulse - bounding

Alternative Names:

Bounding pulse

Call your health care provider if:

Call your health care provider if there is any sudden, severe, or persistent increase in your pulse's intensity or rate. Calling is particularly important when accompanied by other symptoms, or when not relieved by resting for a few minutes.

What to expect at your health care provider's office:

Your health care provider will perform a physical examination. Your vital signs will be monitored, such as your temperature, pulse, rate of breathing, and blood pressure, and your heart may need to be monitored.

Your provider will ask questions about this symptom, such as:

Is this the first time you have felt a bounding pulse?
Did it develop suddenly or gradually?
Is it present continuously?
Is it only there when other symptoms (such as palpitations) are also present?
Are you pregnant?
Have you had a fever?
Have you been very anxious or stressed?
Do you have known high blood pressure or congestive heart failure?
Do you have kidney failure?
Do you have valvular heart disease?
Does it get better if you rest?
What other symptoms are present?

The following diagnostic tests may be performed:

Blood studies (CBC or blood differential )
ECG
Echocardiogram
x-rays of the chest

Review Date: 10/15/2004
Reviewed By: Jacqueline A. Hart, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine, Newton-Wellesley Hosptial, Boston, Ma.

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