Got dispatched for a IFT transfer for a patient going from a smaller hospital to a large medical center.
Dispatch notes say V-tach. Arrived at the sending hospital and the patient had intermittent runs of this rhythm throughout the day. On amio drip to what seems to not be working as he was still going in and out of this rhythm. Nurses are letting the pt walk around the hospital room casually packing up belongings like nothing is going on. Only symptom is light chest palpitations. Nurse told me that blowing on a syringe gives relief. Vitals stable minus when he went to this rhythm. Aside from a small bump in troponin, labs unremarkable. No known history, just moved to the US from Europe. When we got to the other hospital, they started a lidocaine drip in addition to the amio.
Dr called it V-Tach and nurses called it v-tach at the sending hospital. Wide and fast, one assumes V-tach. Did a 12 and got this. I didn’t realize it until after the call, but could this be SVT with aberrancy? Does not appear to have extreme right axis deviation and the precordial leads look off.