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Tasers on the job: Do they pose an unnecessary risk?
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Air date: May 20, 2012
Host: Steve Bogdewic, PhD
Interview: Douglas P Zipes MD, professor emeritus at the Indiana University School of Medicine
Tasers are commonly used devices among law enforcement officials to temporarily stun and are capable of delivering shocks up to 50,000 volts. Douglas P Zipes MD, professor emeritus at the Indiana University School of Medicine, studied the use of these devices and discovered that Tasers are capable of inducing abnormal heart rhythms and even cardiac arrest.
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- Check out the contents of the study discussed in this segment here.
