NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A shock from a Taser doesn't have any short-term adverse effects on healthy people, once its immobilizing effects wear off, a new study shows.
But the study, the first non-industry-funded investigation of the device in humans, doesn't answer the question of how Taser use might affect extremely agitated people, those on illicit drugs like methamphetamine or cocaine, or individuals with heart problems.
"It's a limited study. It's a piece of the puzzle," Dr. Gary Vilke of the University of California, San Diego Medical Center, the study's lead author, told Reuters Health.
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