ECG RHYTHM LAB
Second-Degree AV Block · Mobitz I
PR intervals lengthen before a nonconducted P wave; the cycle then restarts.
Generated six-second Lead II example · 80 bpm target rate · not a patient recording.
- Typical rate
- Ventricular rate below atrial rate
- Regularity
- Grouped beating
- P waves
- Regular atrial activity
- PR interval
- Progressively lengthens, then drops
- QRS
- Usually narrow
What to look for
Follow successive P waves: longer PR, longer PR, then a missing QRS.