NREMT Paramedic

Category - Cardiology

Automaticity is the ability of which muscle group?
  1. Smooth muscle
  2. Cardiac muscle
  3. Involuntary muscle
  4. Skeletal muscle
Explanation
Answer: B - Automaticity is the ability to generate an impulse on its own even when disconnected from the central nervous system. Although cardiac muscle is smooth like smooth muscle, but string-like like that of skeletal muscle, cardiac muscle is made up of a cellular meshwork that is unlike either skeletal, or smooth muscle.
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