Nursing care of a client with fractured hip should include the assessment of pedal pulse. The important characteristics of pedal pulse are..
1. Contractility & rate
2. Color of the skin and rhythm
3. Amplitude and symmetry
4. Local temperature and visible pulsations
Kindly comment your answers….
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Answer is 3, The assessment of the pedal pulse should include the strength of the pulse. Symmetry, the correspondence of homologus parts on opposite sides of the body, indicates whether the pulses are equal.
1. contractility is not a characteristics of pulse but of the heart, rate is not measured with pedal pulses.
2. color of skin is not a pulse characteristic rhythm relates to radial and apical pulses, not pedal pulses.
4. local temperature is not a characteristics of the pedal pulse; pulsations are not visible in pedal pulses.