pulse
Let an agent explain the arterial pulse and its measurement, relay normal ranges and what variations may indicate in general terms from clinical sources, distinguish pulse from heart rate and from other senses, and route personal findings to clinicians.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What the pulse is.
Definition
Definition and physiology.
Definition
Definition.
- What is the pulse, and how does it arise from systole and diastole? definition
- Is the question about the arterial pulse, heart rate or another sense of pulse? boundary
Assessment
Assessment.
Assessment
Assessment.
- How is the pulse taken, and what are rate, rhythm, volume and character? definition
- Which entry fits vital signs? action
Interpret Interpretation.
Ranges
Normal ranges.
Ranges
Ranges.
- What are normal pulse ranges by age and fitness, per guidelines? provenance
- Is the user asking about their own readings, which need a clinician? boundary
Abnormal
Irregular and abnormal pulses.
Abnormal
Abnormal.
- What may irregular, fast, slow or weak pulses indicate, in general terms, including extrasystoles? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Measure Devices and monitoring.
Devices
Devices.
Devices
Devices.
- How do pulse oximeters and wearables measure pulse, and how accurate are they, as studies report? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
First aid
First aid.
First aid
First aid.
- How is the pulse used in first aid and emergency assessment? action
- Is the user in an emergency, which needs emergency services now? boundary
Context History and other senses.
History
History.
History
History.
- How has pulse diagnosis been used from ancient and traditional medicine to modern practice, with attribution? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of medicine? action
Senses
Other senses.
Senses
Senses.
- How is pulse used in music, physics and for legume seeds? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific sense? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Activities and processes
- Entry kind
- noun.event
- Plane
- ACT
- Domain
- ACT.EVT
- Facets: substance
- activity
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- pulsation, heartbeat, beat, diastole, systole, extrasystole, throb, throbbing, pounding
What it is Filled
The rhythmic expansion and contraction of arteries with each heartbeat, felt at sites such as the wrist and neck and counted as the pulse rate, reflecting the heart rhythm of systole and diastole and disturbed by extra beats such as extrasystoles; the pulse is a vital sign assessed for rate, rhythm, strength and character, and the word also names rhythmic beats in music, signals in physics and edible legume seeds, which are separate senses.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain the arterial pulse and its measurement, relay normal ranges and what variations may indicate in general terms from clinical sources, distinguish pulse from heart rate and from other senses, and route personal findings to clinicians.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Vital sign
- Rate, rhythm, volume and character
- Peripheral reflection of cardiac cycle
- Homonymous senses
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose arrhythmia or heart disease in place of a clinician.
- Treat a consumer wearable's pulse reading as clinical-grade without saying so.
- Share a person's continuous heart rate data without their consent.
- Dismiss a very fast, very slow or absent pulse that a user reports.
Only with a human decision
- Any treatment or medication decision.
- Escalating to emergency care on someone's behalf.
May
- Measure, count and record pulse rate, rhythm and strength with suitable devices.
- Alert a carer or clinician when readings cross limits they have set.
Moral aspects Filled
- Pulse data reveals stress, exertion and health and is sensitive personal information.
- Wearable readings vary by skin tone and fit, so unequal accuracy can harm some users.
Who is affected
- Patients and wearable users
- Carers
- Clinicians
Owners Filled
Steward
The person whose body it is; clinicians and device operators answer for their readings.
Master systems
- Patient health records
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-07310808-n - registry parent class
related
- event - in registry terms, as a periodic occurrence
- cardiac cycle - of systole and diastole
- vital sign - in clinical assessment
- heart rate - counted at the heart
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.pulse
- Open English WordNet: oewn-07415506-n
- MeSH: D011673 pulse
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- normal resting pulse: 60-100 beats per minute - adults
- pulse points: about 9 sites - commonly used
Plane ACT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Arterial beat felt with each heartbeat
- Radial, carotid and other pulse points; rate, rhythm and character
- Heart rate is counted at the heart; pulses in music, physics and legumes are other senses
- Not a visible object; a beat felt under the fingers at pulse points.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the pulse and its assessment
- relay normal ranges
- distinguish related senses
- route personal findings
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Missed arrhythmias
- Agents interpreting personal readings
- Confusing pulse senses
- Inaccurate wearable readings
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Clinical guidelines on vital sign assessment
- Device standards for pulse oximeters and wearables
Context of use required Filled
- Indicating heart rhythm and circulation.
- radial, carotid, femoral and other peripheral pulses
- pulse rate and rhythm
- pulse character such as bounding, weak or collapsing
- irregular pulses from extrasystoles and arrhythmias
- pulse deficit between heart and peripheral rate
- pulse in traditional medicine diagnosis, described with attribution
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-07415506-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: pulse - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should heart rate and arrhythmia be the primary linked entries?
- How should clinical guidelines be linked?
- The registry aliases include cardiac cycle phases; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-pulse/spec.json