Popular Culture
VT is frequently referenced in the 1970s television series Emergency!
In the 2006 film Casino Royale, the protagonist, James Bond, suffers ventricular tachycardia from intoxication of digitalis and goes into cardiac arrest.
"V-Tach" is what the Satin Slayer from the American soap opera All My Children used to kill his victims.
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