TASER Electronic Control Devices Review Of Safety Literature

Figure 14. Appendectomy CPT for Nevada........................................................ 60
Figure 15. The rate of the TASER ECD (CEW or Conducted Electrical Weapon)
being mentioned as contributory is now dropping rapidly................................... 68
Figure 16. Annual field usage rate per weapon. Low deployment departments
have much higher usage rates per CEW as they are called out to many difficult
situations while each officer in full deployment departments has an individual
CEW................................................................................................................... 76
Figure 17. Total field and training exposures. The numbers up to mid-2008 are
based on actual CEW deployments while the remaining are based on
conservative sales estimates. ............................................................................ 77
0.2 TABLE OF TABLES
Table 1. Most common lethal cardiac problems. ................................................ 13
Table 2. Cardiac Arrest Rhythms ....................................................................... 25
Table 3. Factors promoting cardiac safety in spite of skeletal muscle control.... 39
Table 4. Studies Show Cardiac Effects from Electrical Current Appear in a Few
Seconds. ............................................................................................................ 40
Table 5. Suspect injury reductions. .................................................................... 56
Table 6. Some ICD-9 and DSM-IV Codes for Delirium....................................... 61
Table 7. Errors in Autopsy reports from 2002 to 2005........................................ 68
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