Human research review of the TASER® electronic control device

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 3181-3183

  Ho, Jeffrey D ^a   Dawes, Donald M ^b   Heegaard, William G ^a   Miner, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Human studies; Safety; Sudden death; TASER

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CARDIAC; ELECTRONIC CONTROL DEVICES; HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN STUDY; RESEARCH REVIEW; SUDDEN DEATHS; TASER;

SERVOMECHANISMS;

EID: 77951006937     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5334540     Document Type: Conference Paper

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