Do electrical stun guns (TASER-X26®) affect the functional integrity of implantable pacemakers and defibrillators?

Europace

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 551-556

  Lakkireddy, Dhanunjaya ^a   Khasnis, Atul ^b   Antenacci, Jennifer ^c   Ryshcon, Kay ^c   Chung, Mina K ^c   Wallick, Donald ^c   Kowalewski, William ^c   Patel, Dimpi ^c   Mlcochova, Hanka ^d   Kondur, Ashok ^e   Vacek, James ^a   Martin, David ^c   Natale, Andrea ^c   Tchou, Patrick ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ICDs; Interaction; Pacemakers; Stun gun; TASER

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC SHOCK; HEART CYCLE; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE GENERATOR; SWINE; TIME;

ANIMALS; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC INJURIES; ELECTROSHOCK; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWINE;

EID: 34547881084     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eum058     Document Type: Article

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