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A nursing student is learning to take vital signs. He is practicing taking a pulse at home on his mother. He carefully counts the beats per minute and determines the rhythm. He finds that his mother's heart rate is 58 beats per minute.
 
  He knows that this is considered: A. tachycardia.
  B. bradycardia.
  C. a normal heart rate for an adult.
  D. a dysrhythmia.
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Tachycardia is an abnormally elevated heart rate, more than 100 beats per minute in adults. Bradycardia is a slow rate, less than 60 beats per minute in adults.
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