TASER conducted electrical weapons and implanted pacemakers and defibrillators

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 3199-3204

  Vanga, Subba R ^a   Bommana, Sudharani ^a   Kroll, Mark W ^b   Swerdlow, Charles ^c   Lakkireddy, Dhanunjaya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CEW; Electrophysiology; ICDs; Pacemakers; TASER

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATORS; PACEMAKERS;

ADVERSE EFFECT; ANIMAL STUDIES; CASE REPORTS; ICDS; IMPLANTED DEVICE; NEW CASE; TASER;

DEFIBRILLATORS;

EID: 77950984876     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5333136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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