Taser dart-to-heart distance that causes ventricular fibrillation in pigs

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 503-508

  Wu, Jiun Yan ^a   Sun, Hongyu ^a   O'Rourke, Ann P ^b   Huebner, Shane ^c   Rahko, Peter S ^b   Will, James A ^c   Webster, John G ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Electrical safety; Electromuscular incapacitating device; Fibrillation; Safety; Stun gun; Taser; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL IMAGING; SKIN; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

ELECTRICAL SAFETY; ELECTROMUSCULAR INCAPACITATING DEVICES (EMD); STANDARD DEVIATION; STUN GUN; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION (VF);

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMUSCULAR INCAPACITATING DEVICE; HEART; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; NONHUMAN; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HEART; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SWINE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 33847761099     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.888832     Document Type: Article

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