KROK 1 2007 – Question 96 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A patient has extrasystole. ECG shows no P wave, QRS complex is deformed, there is a full compensatory pause. What extrasystoles are these?
- A. Sinus
- B. Ventricular
- C. Atrioventricular
- D. Atrial
- E. -
Hint
Consider where an impulse must arise to give a wide, deformed QRS without a preceding P wave, and why the sinus rhythm is not reset so the pause is full.
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