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The nurse obtains a monitor strip on a patient admitted to the coronary care unit with a myocardial infarction (MI) and makes the following analysis: P wave not apparent;ventricular rate 142 beats/min,R-R interval regular;PR interval not measurable;and QRS complex wide and distorted,greater than 0.14 second.The nurse interprets this patient's cardiac rhythm as which of the following?
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