Title :
Cardiac fibrillation risks with TASER conducted electrical weapons
Author :
Dorin Panescu;Mark Kroll;Michael Brave
Author_Institution :
Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics, Inc. Santa Clara, CA, USA
Abstract :
The TASER® conducted electrical weapon (CEW) delivers electrical pulses that can temporarily incapacitate subjects. We analyzed the cardiac fibrillation risk with TASER CEWs. Our risk model accounted for realistic body mass index distributions, used a new model of effects of partial or oblique dart penetration and used recent epidemiological CEW statics.
Keywords :
"Muscles","Current density","Finite element analysis","Skin","Heart","Sternum","Lungs"
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
Electronic_ISBN :
1558-4615
DOI :
10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318365
