3rd Degree AV Blocks...HELP!

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I am in my last semester of nursing school and we are learning about how to read EKGs. I am confused on how to differentiate 3rd Degree AV Blocks. This particular EKG reading doesn't appear to have anything special about it which is making it hard for me to pick it out from a set of four different EKG readings. Does anyone have any tips or advice about this!

Thanks 🙂

Specializes in Emergency Nursing.
:lol2: We should set up an online tutoring or school instead of giving it up for free....;).

Anyhow, It keeps me sane....

A FAQ would probably be particularly helpful, but that's assuming people would actually read the thing.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Flight.

P waves will be going at a rate of 60-100 (Sinus)

QRS will be going at a rate of 40-60 (thats their intrinsic rate)

if u have P waves going one speed , and QRS going another..most likely its a 3rd Degree Heart block :)

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Specializes in Intermediate Cardio/Vascular.

This was a very helpful explaination for me. I was having trouble understanding this concept as well. Thank you

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Well, it must be second semester coming up somewhere (like, "It's always 5 o'clock somewhere!") so I guess it's time to reanimate this thread.

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Specializes in Critical Care, ED, Cath lab, CTPAC,Trauma.
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