The nurse is reviewing the characteristics of third degree AV heart block and understands the reason for not having a correlation between the P waves and the ventricles is which of the following?
a. The electrical stimulation is not reaching the ventricles so the atria and ventricles contract at their own pace
b. The ventricles are conducting to fast for the atria to keep up
c. The atria are conducting too fast for the ventricles to keep up
d. The atria are quivering so not all the impulses reach the ventricles
a. The electrical stimulation is not reaching the ventricles so the atria and ventricles contract at their own pace
rationale: The electrical stimulation is not reaching the ventricles, so the atria and ventricles contract at an uncoordinated pace
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