Can the direct cardiac effects of the electric pulses generated by the TASER X26 cause immediate or delayed sudden cardiac arrest in normal adults?

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 195-201

  Ideker, Raymond E ^a,b,c   Dosdall, Derek J ^c  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c and Radiation Oncology   (United States)

Author keywords

Fundamental law of electrostimulation; Sudden cardiac arrest; TASER; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

BODY SURFACE; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRIC FIELD; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPORATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXTRASYSTOLE; HEART ARREST; HEART BEAT; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEART; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 34548261485     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAF.0b013e31803179a9     Document Type: Review

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