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SUBMITTER: Bui ET
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2653575 | biostudies-other | 2009 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bui Esther T ET Sourkes Myra M Wennberg Richard R
CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne 20090301 6
During a police chase on foot, a previously well police officer was hit mistakenly by a taser shot meant for the suspect. The taser gun had been fired once, sending 2 barbed darts into his upper back and occiput. Within seconds, the officer collapsed and experienced a generalized tonic-clonic seizure with loss of consciousness and postictal confusion. Subsequent magnetic resonance imaging scans of the head and electroencephalograms were normal. The patient has experienced no recurrence of seizur ...[more]