When a patient is in sustained ventricular tachycardia, the nurse understands it can progress to which of these dysrhythmias?
a. Complete heart block
b. Ventricular fibrillation
c. Atrial flutter
d. Atrial fibrillation
ANS: B
Sustained ventricular tachycardia can progress to ventricular fibrillation.
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