Sensitive Swine and TASER Electronic Control Devices

TASER electronic control devices and cardiac arrests: coincidental or causal?

TASER Electronic Control Devices and Cardiac Arrests: Coincidental or Causal? Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2014 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.004401 2014;129:93-100 Circulation. http://circ.ahajournals.org/conte...

TASER Electronic Control Devices Review of Safety Literature

TASER electronic control devices can cause cardiac arrest in humans.

Acute effects of TASER X26 discharges in a swine model.

BACKGROUND Very little objective laboratory data are available describing the physiologic effects of stun guns or electromuscular incapacitation devices (EIDs). Unfortunately, there have been several hundred in-custody deaths, which have been temporally associated with the deployment of these devices. Most of the deaths have been attributed to specific cardiac and metabolic effects. We hypothes...

TASER X26 discharges in swine produce potentially fatal ventricular arrhythmias.

OBJECTIVES Data from the authors and others suggest that TASER X26 stun devices can acutely alter cardiac function in swine. The authors hypothesized that TASER discharges degrade cardiac performance through a mechanism not involving concurrent acidosis. METHODS Using an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)-approved protocol, Yorkshire pigs (25-71 kg) were anesthetized, paralyz...