The nurse is teaching a beginning EKG class to staff nurses. As the nurse begins to discuss the parts of the EKG complex, one of the students asks what the normal order of conduction through the heart is. The correct response would be which of the following?

The nurse is teaching a beginning EKG class to staff nurses. As the nurse begins to discuss the parts of the EKG complex, one of the students asks what the normal order of conduction through the heart is. The correct response would be which of the following?


a) SA node, AV node, right and left bundle branches, bundle of His, and the Purkinje fibers
b) Sinoatrial (SA) node, atrioventricular (AV) node, bundle of His, right and left bundle branches, and the Purkinje fibers
c) SA node, AV node, bundle of His, the Purkinje fibers, and the right and left bundle branches
d) AV node, SA node, bundle of His, right and left bundle branches, and the Purkinje fibers


Answer: b) Sinoatrial (SA) node, atrioventricular (AV) node, bundle of His, right and left bundle branches, and the Purkinje fibers


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