A patient presents with atrial flutter with an atrial rate of 280 beats/min and a ventricular rate of 70 beats/min.Which of the following best explains this discrepancy in rates?
A) The ventricles are too tired to respond to all the atrial signals.
B) The AV node does not conduct all the atrial signals to the ventricles.
C) Some of the atrial beats are blocked before reaching the AV node.
D) The ventricles are responding to a ventricular ectopic pacemaker.
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