Next, we will evaluate our patient’s carotid arterial pulses just medial to the sternocleidomastoid muscle in the neck. I'm placing light pressure and I'm having a little difficulty feeling it, but I do feel it, and to enhance that for you, so that you can share the experience with me, I am going to place a cotton swab on the vessel and let's watch the tip of the cotton swab together. [Cut-away]