Cardiology: practice question

The best answer is A, Atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation produces chaotic atrial electrical activity and variable ventricular filling, resulting in a characteristically irregularly irregular pulse.

Bigeminy has a repeating pattern rather than random irregularity.

Sinus rhythm is regular with organized atrial activity.

Complete heart block may be regular but dissociated.

It tests Cardiology in General Medicine. The correct option holds because: Correct: atrial fibrillation classically produces an irregularly irregular rhythm.

We tag it as an application question: it asks you to use a fact on a patient or a finding. The tag is our own editorial judgement, not an official difficulty rating, so read the reason for every option, not only the answer.

For each disease know the classic presentation, the best test, and the first-line treatment. Then use the flashcards and the other General Medicine questions on this site to test what stuck.

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