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Atrial flutter (AFL) is a type of abnormal heart rate, or arrhythmia where the atria of the heart beat too

fast, which results in atrial muscle contractions that are faster than and out of sync with the ventricles.

When an individual has atrial flutter, the electrical signal sent out by the sinus node but part of the signal
travels along a pathway in a circular motion or circuit around the right atrium, in a continuous loop. This
causes the atria to contract rapidly, which leads to the atria to beat faster than the ventricles. A normal
heart beat is 60 to 100 beats per minute. People with atrial flutter present atrial rates between 250 to 300
beats per minute.

Atrial flutter as said is typically not a stable rhythm and will frequently degenerate into atrial fibrillation.
In summary, the heart beat that would be generated in an auscultation would be in a fast irregular phase
which is often described by physicians as chaotic.

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