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More Doctors Say Taser Shocks Affect Heart
"Good news" Taser story provides evidence stun
guns can be lethal
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It's not often you hear about a Taser stun affecting a person's
health in a positive way, however, fresh reports from doctors
of just such a occurrence have provided more evidence that the
so called "less than lethal" weapons do affect the heart
of those they are used on.
Doctors at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut have
reported that a shock from a Taser may have caused a man's irregular
heart back into a healthy rhythm.
Dr. Kyle Richards, a cardiologist at the hospital
related the story to Reuters
that a patient, admitted to the hospital after jumping in a very
cold lake whilst fleeing from police, was shocked with a taser
after becoming combative during treatment. The doctors at the
hospital believe that the shock corrected an irregular heart rhythm
known as atrial fibrillation.
"This is the first report of a patient receiving
a shock of this kind and having a positive outcome," Richards
said.
After commenting that studies done in pigs show
the weapon can affect the heart muscle, Dr. Richards told reporters
"It's just one more thing that says, hey, Tasers can actually
affect the heart."
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Last week two prominent heart doctors told an ongoing
Canadian inquiry that there is no
doubt that Taser stun guns can cause heart problems
and even induce sudden and lethal cardiac arrest.
A cardiologist and a heart surgeon both stated that
based on their own studies of the literature on the weapons, it
is clear that they can induce ventricular fibrillation.
Earlier this month doctors
condemned as corporate "intimidation" a
court decision ordering a chief medical examiner to remove any
reference to the use of a taser as an antecedent in the deaths
of three men.
Taser International filed and won a civil suit, forcing deletion
all mentions of the weapons in the autopsy reports and requiring
the deaths be termed "accidental".
In the past week Taser International has won
three more
lawsuits contending that the weapon was a principle cause of wrongful
death or injury. This now brings the total amount of cases that
have been either dismissed or won by Taser International to 70.
No judge has yet ruled against the stun gun manufacturer,
which maintains the weapons do not affect the heart or the nervous
system, despite medical testimony to the contrary, and according
to senior police officers instructs that the exact opposite is
true.
The UN's Committee Against Torture disagrees with
Taser International, and back in November last year issued a statement
on the TaserX26, which read: "The use of TaserX26
weapons, provoking extreme pain, constituted a form of torture,
and that in certain cases it could also cause death, as shown
by several reliable studies and by certain cases that had happened
after practical use."
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