Pulsus paradoxus (PP), also paradoxic pulse or paradoxical pulse, is an abnormally large decrease in systolic blood pressure and pulse wave amplitude during inspiration. The normal fall in pressure is less than 10 mmHg or 10 torr. When the drop is more than 10mm Hg, it is referred to as pulsus paradoxus. Pulsus paradoxus has nothing to do with pul...
Synonym for paradoxical pulse ... An exaggeration of the normal variation in the pulse volume with respiration, becoming weaker with inspiration and stronger with expiration; characteristic of cardiac tamponade, rare in constrictive pericarditis; so called because these changes are independent of changes in the cardiac rate as measured directly or ...
(pul´sәs par″ә-dok´sәs) paradoxical pulse.
Type: Term Synonyms: paradoxic pulse
a condition in which the pulse pressure declines during respiratory inspiration