There are two types of bigeminy, based on where these extra beats originate: Atrial bigeminy: The extra beats come from the upper heart chambers (atria) and are called premature atrial ...

then the rhythm is referred to as “atrial bigeminy” as seen in this strip above. If a PAC occurs when the AV node has not yet recovered from the refractory period, it will fail to conduct to ...

The regular arrhythmia occurring at the beginning of the electrocardiogram was identified as ventricular bigeminy. Single ventricular premature complexes (VPCs), as well as pairs and triplets of ...

Thus it must "skip a beat" and it will resume exactly 2 P to P intervals after the last normal sinus beat. When every other QRS complex is a PAC, then the rhythm is referred to as "atrial bigeminy".