No P waves are seen on the ECG. When a junctional escape ensues, the rhythm may be confused with a junctional rhythm. If no junctional escape rhythm is present, a long pause resulting in asystole ...

A junctional rhythm occurs when the electrical activation of the heart originates near or within the atrioventricular node, rather than from the sinoatrial node. Because the normal ventricular ...

The regular arrhythmia occurring at the beginning of the electrocardiogram was identified ... of an ectopy is determined by the intrinsic escape rhythm of the ectopic focus. For ventricular ...