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Re: Tazer in pregnancy From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Tue Jan 11 22:11:28 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Elrod Darryl G MAJ 48 MDOS/SGOBO: "Coding question" Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Tazer in pregnancy" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Re: Tazer in pregnancy" Next in thread: Henry Gregor: "Re: Tazer in pregnancy" Reply: Henry Gregor: "Re: Tazer in pregnancy" They tasered a pregnant woman because she refused to submit to a strip search? I thought I read in a previous post that the Taser was developed as an alternative to the .38. Do they shoot pregnant women who refuse to submit to strip searches? Yikes! -- Anna Meenan, MD At Tue, 11 Jan 2005, art fougner, md wrote: > > The case concerned a woman 12 weeks pregnant who was >shot with a taser after she refused to submit to a strip search in a >Florida jail; she began to miscarry spontaneously seven days later. She >was subsequently awarded $225,000 by a federal jury. (151) A study of >the safety of tasers and any associated medical risks should include >further research into this topic. > >http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engamr511392004 > >art > >At Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Betsy Hyde wrote: >> >>My BIL is a police officer who does the taser training....has also been >>tasered 4x. Here's what he says.... >> >>> Taser Intl says it is medically safe to use on a pregnant female. One >>> of >>> the considerations in using the Taser on anyone, not just pregnant >>> women, is >>> the possibility of injury from falling when muscle control is lost. >>> For the >>> elderly, pregnant women and someone on the edge of a 37 story building >>> it >>> might be best to look for another alternative. >>> >>-- >>Betsy Hyde CNM >>Branford, CT >> >-- >art fougner, md > > "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." >Lawrence Peter Berra > Next message: Elrod Darryl G MAJ 48 MDOS/SGOBO: "Coding question" Previous message: Joanne Bulley, MD: "Re: Tazer in pregnancy" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Re: Tazer in pregnancy" Next in thread: Henry Gregor: "Re: Tazer in pregnancy" Reply: Henry Gregor: "Re: Tazer in pregnancy"

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