Reply #8: Okay Captain obvious.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

"If there's a person that dropped dead suddenly after Taser application and you can find nothing else on the autopsy, I would venture to say that's due to arrhythmic death."


Really are you sure. If anyone anywhere shocked with taser or not drops dead and you can find nothing on the autopsy, then it's a safe bet to say the cause of death was from a lethal dysrhythmia (proper term, not to correct the cardiologist). Notice how he didn't say the lethal dysrhythmia was caused from the taser. He said it could be if the barbs hit in just the right spot and the shock happened at just the right millisecond. Before you start in on me, I think tasers are overused and are possibly a contributing factor in a fraction of these deaths. Either this doctor or this reporter didn't do their job.

David