On your sleeping patient's 12-lead EKG, Lead I's waves and complexes are extremely jittery—completely unreadable—as are aVR's. The most likely cause of this is
A) heart is on the right side of the body instead of the left.
B) patient has an arrhythmia.
C) gain is set too low.
D) right arm electrode or patch is loose or off.
D
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