You Determine a Patient's Heart Rate to Be 48 Beats

question 47

Multiple Choice

You determine a patient's heart rate to be 48 beats per minute. That heart rate would be categorized as:

• A) tachypneic.
• B) normal.
• C) bradycardic.
• D) tachycardic.

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