Nursing · Cardiovascular Assessment
A heart transplant recipient is being monitored post-surgery. Why might two distinct P waves be observed on the electrocardiogram (ECG) of this recipient?
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- 1Because the healthy transplanted donor heart inherently develops multiple distinct pacemaker sites
- 2Due to re-emergent ventricular arrhythmias inside the donor heart tissue
- 3Due to the presence of an artificial internal cardiac pacemaker active simultaneously
- 4Because a small native portion of the recipient's posterior atria containing the SA node is left intact and joined with the donor atria✓
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Because a small native portion of the recipient's posterior atria containing the SA node is left intact and joined with the donor atria
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