The risk of popliteal artery aneurysm rupture is low.
POPLITEAL PULSE SKIN
if the joint is relaxed and slightly flexed, the artery will be there for the feeling.assuming there is a decent bp in it and its walls aren't badly sclerosed. Sudden leg ischemia can cause the following signs and symptoms: A change in skin color in the affected area. Same applies when trying to palpate popliteals (good technique nicely described by ericjrn above ) or bracheals at the elbow. try it now- locate your radial pulse, then slowly hyperextend the wrist and feel that artery just.slip away. You can always tell when someone is trying hard to get a pulse and they bend the hand backwards thinking that will make it easier. in these and similar cases it would be in the best interest of your long-term survival to protect that artery from easy (ier) trauma, so it sorta slides back behind the bones/ligaments/tendons in the joint. or you are fighting off the predator that wants to eat you, arms extended to push it off. Each surgeon recorded whether the femoral and. Imagine you are pushing something away from you, but it snaps back and hits your wrist. Six vascular surgeons independently examined 44 legs in patients with suspected peripheral arterial disease. to see why, let's look at the easiest ones to find, the radial artery in the wrist and the brachial in the upper arm. The dorsalis pedis pulse is palpable on the dorsum of the foot in the first intermetatarsal space just lateral to the extensor tendon of the great toe. Popliteal (and almost all other*) pulses are arterial.Īs a general rule, arterial pulses are hard to find when the joint they pass by is extended or hyperextended. There are 2 pulses in the foot that to check for - the dorsalis pedis artery (DPA) and the posterior tibial artery (. Below-knee stumps should be about four inches long in amputations for. Palpating for pedal pulses is problematic. "no popliteal pulse! that's never good! :) his vein maybe deeper or you may be applying too much pressure and occluding the vein or, maybe god did move his vein a little to the right or left" The absence of a popliteal pulse, however, does not exclude below-knee amputation.