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Erschienen in: Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift 7-8/2019

01.02.2018 | review

A comparative brief on conducted electrical weapon safety

verfasst von: PD. Dr. Sebastian N. Kunz, PD. Dr. Jiri Adamec

Erschienen in: Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift | Ausgabe 7-8/2019

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Summary

The variety and high number of published research articles on conducted electrical weapons (CEW) provides a detailed, yet in some parts inconclusive overview of medical aspects of CEW. Due to different research approaches and the use of dissimilar test subjects, an assessment of possible health risks of CEW is limited. The present work provides a brief on CEW safety based on currently available animal, computer and human research data. Using the medical database PubMed, articles published on this topic are critically evaluated and compared with each other. Special focuses are the differences and similarities of human and animal research as well as computer simulation programs. The authors explain why some studies are more reliable than others and give their expert opinion on the safety of CEW. The body of data that have been reviewed provides reasonable support for the safety of CEW.
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Metadaten
Titel
A comparative brief on conducted electrical weapon safety
verfasst von
PD. Dr. Sebastian N. Kunz
PD. Dr. Jiri Adamec
Publikationsdatum
01.02.2018
Verlag
Springer Vienna
Erschienen in
Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift / Ausgabe 7-8/2019
Print ISSN: 0043-5341
Elektronische ISSN: 1563-258X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10354-018-0616-4

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