Thoracic Compression Fracture as a Result of Taser(®) Discharge

A conducted electrical device (CED), usually Taser®, is commonly used by law enforcement officers to aid in the incapacitation of subjects. While CEDs are considered “safe” for use on subjects, adverse events may rarely occur. We report a case of a 23-year-old male presenting with severe back pain f...

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Autores principales: Tyagi, Aaron C., Gill, Alex, Felton, Brent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5965204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29849357
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2017.7.33508
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description A conducted electrical device (CED), usually Taser®, is commonly used by law enforcement officers to aid in the incapacitation of subjects. While CEDs are considered “safe” for use on subjects, adverse events may rarely occur. We report a case of a 23-year-old male presenting with severe back pain following deployment of a CED with resulting acute compression fractures of the thoracic sixth, seventh, and eighth vertebral bodies. To the best of our knowledge, this represents the third case of traumatic injury from CED discharge to be reported in the literature since 1995.
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spelling pubmed-59652042018-05-30 Thoracic Compression Fracture as a Result of Taser(®) Discharge Tyagi, Aaron C. Gill, Alex Felton, Brent Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med Case Report A conducted electrical device (CED), usually Taser®, is commonly used by law enforcement officers to aid in the incapacitation of subjects. While CEDs are considered “safe” for use on subjects, adverse events may rarely occur. We report a case of a 23-year-old male presenting with severe back pain following deployment of a CED with resulting acute compression fractures of the thoracic sixth, seventh, and eighth vertebral bodies. To the best of our knowledge, this represents the third case of traumatic injury from CED discharge to be reported in the literature since 1995. University of California Irvine, Department of Emergency Medicine publishing Western Journal of Emergency Medicine 2017-10-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5965204/ /pubmed/29849357 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/cpcem.2017.7.33508 Text en © 2017 Tyagi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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