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Beautiful slow/stable VT on one of my hospice patients admitted while in cardiac ICU. pt w/end stage CHF & recurrent VT. VT was controlled with lidocaine, but returned when lido off. Pt AAOx3 and chose to turn off AICD and d/c lido. 18 hours after lido d/c pt having frequent runs in 240s, but still AAO & comfortable

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