The staff educator is teaching a class on conduction problems in the heart. The educator explains that in an adult patient who has damage to the electrical conduction of the ventricles of the heart, the nurse would expect to see changes in what?
A) P wave
B) T wave
C) QRS complex
D) U wave
Ans: C
Feedback: The QRS complex represents the depolarization of the ventricles and, as such, the electrical activity of that ventricle.
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