Unstable wide-complex tachycardia

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Teaching point

Wide-complex tachycardia with shock features (pale, sweating, hypotension) is unstable VT — perform immediate synchronised DC cardioversion. Stable wide-complex tachycardia may be treated with amiodarone.

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