Sensitive swine and TASER electronic control devices

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 695-696

  Kroll, Mark W ^a   Calkins, Hugh ^b   Luceri, Richard M ^c   Graham, Michael A ^d   Heegaard, William G ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; DEVICE; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTRONICS; FATALITY; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; LETTER; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC INJURIES; FIREARMS; HEART RATE; SWINE; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 56849127050     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00141.x     Document Type: Letter

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