The nurse is using the cardiac rhythm strip to calculate a patient's heart rate. What methods for calculating atrial or ventricular heart rate are correct? Select all that apply
A) Count the number of QRS complexes in 6 seconds and multiply by 10.
B) Divide 300 by the number of large boxes between two QRS complexes.
C) Count the number of QRS complexes in 10 seconds and multiply by 10.
D) Count the number of P waves in 6 seconds and multiply by 10.
E) Divide 1,500 by the number of small boxes between two P waves.
F) Count the number of QRS complexes in a 1-minute strip.
A, B, D, E, F
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