Detection of infant’s heart beat/pulse by caregivers: A comparison of 4 methods

Abstract Parents (n = 200) were asked to find and then count their infant’s pulse using 4 methods: listening to the apex, palpating the apex beat, and palpating the carotid and brachial pulses. Listening to the apex method was the fastest and most accurate method of heartbeat detection. (J Pediatr 2000;137:429-30)