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Cardiac Safety of Electrical Stun Guns: Letting Science and Reason Advance the Debate
Author(s) -
LINK MARK S.,
ESTES N. A. MARK
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01007.x
Subject(s) - medicine , service (business) , library science , computer science , economy , economics
The authors reflect on the cardiac safety of electrical stun guns. They commented that the role of biologic models in evaluating the cardiac effects of Taser plays greater importance with the limitations of the epidemiologic data, clinical investigations and theoretical arguments. They added that the debate over the use of Taser is confounded by lack of sufficient scientific evidence to make firm conclusions on the potential of adverse cardiac effects.