The nurse is measuring a patient's QRS complex on an electrocardiogram tracing and determines the patient has a bundle branch block. Which of the following would the patient's length of the QRS complex be?
1. 0.12 seconds
2. 0.10 seconds
3. 0.18 seconds
4. 0.08 seconds
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Rationale: The QRS complex should be 0.12 seconds or less in length unless there is a delay in the impulse reaching the ventricles. A widened QRS complex means delayed conduction through the bundle branches or a Bundle Branch Block, abnormal conduction within the ventricles, or early activation of the ventricles through a bypass route. The length of 0.12 seconds or less is considered normal.
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