A Patient Presents with Atrial Flutter with an Atrial Rate

question 62

Multiple Choice

A patient presents with atrial flutter with an atrial rate of 280 beats/min and a ventricular rate of 70 beats/min.Which of the following best explains this discrepancy in rates?

• A) The ventricles are too tired to respond to all the atrial signals.
• B) The AV node does not conduct all the atrial signals to the ventricles.
• C) Some of the atrial beats are blocked before reaching the AV node.
• D) The ventricles are responding to a ventricular ectopic pacemaker.

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