Using calipers (don’t poke the monitor!), what type of pause do you see after this funny looking premature beat?
1.Complete compensatory pause
2.Incomplete compensatory pause
3.No pause (next beat is on time)
4.Interpolated pause
5.None of the above
summary
The distance between the P waves before and after the PVC is the same distance as two P cycles elsewhere in the rhythm strip. This implies that the sinus node was not reset, and that the funny looking beat is a PVC.
As a side note, this PVC occurs on the peak of the T wave of the preceeding beat making it an R on T.