{"id":196030,"date":"2008-05-28T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/28\/if-a-taser-can-end-atrial-fibrillation-it-can-kill-too\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T21:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-29T02:04:00","slug":"if-a-taser-can-end-atrial-fibrillation-it-can-kill-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/28\/if-a-taser-can-end-atrial-fibrillation-it-can-kill-too\/","title":{"rendered":"If A Taser Can End Atrial Fibrillation, It Can Kill Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have the case of a belligerent patient in a Connecticut hospital, who was brought in with atrial fibrillation brought on from a jump into an ice covered lake.<\/p>\n<p>When he would not control himself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/05\/28\/taser_atrial_fibrillation\/\">security tasered him, and it corrected his irregular heartbeat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is what a medical defibrillator does, and it can kill people too, just like the taser, though the defibrillator has not been called an instrument of torture by the UN&#8217;s Committee Against Torture<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The use of TaserX26 weapons, provoking extreme pain, constituted a form of torture, and that in certain cases it could also cause death, as shown by several reliable studies and by certain cases that had happened after practical use.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have the case of a belligerent patient in a Connecticut hospital, who was brought in with atrial fibrillation brought on from a jump into an ice covered lake. When he would not control himself, security tasered him, and it corrected his irregular heartbeat. This is what a medical defibrillator does, and it can kill &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}