A nursing student was attempting to palpate a patient's apical pulse and sought assistance from a classmate with landmarking the point of maximal impulse
After the assessment, the classmate questioned the student, asking, "What's the point of palpating your patient's pulse when auscultation gives you a lot more data?" How can the student most accurately respond to the classmate's question?
A) "Palpation of the patient's apex helps to gauge the degree of coronary artery disease."
B) "Apical palpation informs an assessment of ventricular enlargement or turbulent blood flow."
C) "The apical pulse will be difficult to palpate in patients who have acute coronary syndrome (ACS) but easy to palpate in healthy patients."
D) "Apical palpation is a way of indirectly assessing a patient's peripheral vascular disease and arterial insufficiency."
B
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