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September 16th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

Getting Tasered restores irregular heartbeat to normal rhythm

I’ve written several stories here about people being accidentally tasered or taser use being abused, but here’s one where getting tasered might have actually helped someone.

An article published in the June Annals of Emergence Medicine by Cardiologists at Hartford described a patients who’d suffered from irregular heartbeats.  His heart rhythm was restored to normal after he was Tasered by police.







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