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When assessing a patient and taking vitals you perform your abc's which is airway, breathing and circulation. Is it easier to take a pulse for 30 seconds and times the number by 2 or take a pulse for 15 seconds and times the number by 4?

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It is easier to take a pulse for 30 sec and times the number by 2.
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