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over 6 years ago
#Ventricular_Bigeminy = A ectopic beat every second beat Ventricular Trigeminy = An ectopic beat every third bead Ventricular Quadrigeminy = An ectopic beat every fourth beat.
over 6 years ago
#Answer #Bigeminy comes for the latin for ‘twins’. On an ECG strip, it presents as a sinus beat with a premature ventricular complex immediately following. This extra beat is wide and abnormal as it bypasses the normal conduction system(His-Purkinje) and directly activates the ventricles. Most have a left bundle branch block morphology and come from the right ventricular outflow tract. There is usually no p wave. Following this wide bizarre beat there is a compensatory pause, usually meaning that the next beat arrives at 2 x the normal RR interval.
