The nurse is caring for a patient on telemetry. The patient's ECG shows a shortened PR interval, slurring of the initial QRS deflection, and prolonged QRS duration. What does this ECG show?
A) Sinus bradycardia
B) Myocardial infarction
C) Lupus-like syndrome
D) Wolf-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome
Ans: D
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In WPW syndrome there is a shortened PR interval, slurring (called a delta wave) of the initial QRS deflection, and prolonged QRS duration. These characteristics are not typical of the other listed cardiac anomalies.
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