A Theoretical and Lightly Look at AV(atriaventricular) Blocks
This writing will be about heart and mathematics, so the formula of love :( Dividing AV blocks as first degree, second degree and third-degree blocks is a well established description in cardiology textbooks and highly used method in clinical practice. But when we look at their discrimination we can’t be sure whether one block is a second degree(more specifically Mobitz type 2) or third-degree block. A similar but not the same type of dilemma(f.e. sometimes can’t be sure about a test’s results or discrimination’s reliability) is a widely seen and mostly acceptable situation in medicine because while you are trying to gain from specifity side you lose sensitivity and vice versa. And on a reasonable point, you have to draw the line and use that method by considering strong and weak sides. But in our situation things are a bit different, not only we sometimes can’t be sure about whether one block is a second degree or third degree, we never can be sure about that. So why are we usin...