A shock from a Taser stun gun sent a teenager into ventricular fibrillation
“A shock from a Taser stun gun caused a teenager in Chicago to go into ventricular fibrillation, a usually fatal heart disturbance, according
to a letter published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine.”
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