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Ventricular tachycardia

In the 2006 film Casino Royale, the protagonist, James Bond, suffers ventricular tachycardia from intoxication of digitalis and goes into cardiac arrest.



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François Dessertenne

François Dessertenne is a French physician who first described the special type of ventricular tachycardia in 1966 known as Torsades de pointes.