Reaponded for an elderly female, not alert. Pt has dinentia | Figure 1

MediHulk

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Reaponded for an elderly female, not alert. Pt has dinentia baseline..but was only responsive to painful stimuli. All vital signs were WNL, with the pt's husband advised she had barely eaten/drank in the 4 days. Her 12 lead showed only afib, and looked like she was hypokalemic. My question is, what are the extopic beats in the ecg strips above? Best i could come up with was they are ventricular extopic beats caused by hypokalemia. But ive never seen this before and im curious. The beats were perfusing, and the pt's HR did increase during the runs, but her BP never altered. Afib baseline.

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