HealthDay News generated an article posted at ModernMedicine.com about Taser injuries requiring emergency room preparation. See, "Taser Injuries Require Preparation In ERs," HealthDay News, Modern Medicine , 7/28/08. The posting states that, according to a paper in the August Journal of Emergency Nursing, emergency nurses and other care providers need to be prepared to handle taser injuries given law enforcement officers' growing use of tasers and accumulating amounts of deaths from the electroshock devices. Id. "Kristopher C. Pidgeon of Memorial Regional Hospital and Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, and collegaues write that more than 150 people in the United States may have died from such electroshock injuries since June 2001," as reported in the article. Id.

Taser injuries result from electrical current and the injuries can include, according to this article, burns, cardiac rhythm disturbances, bone and joint injuries, seizures and cognitive problems.

With Taser use predicted to increase, the article cautions emergency nurses to prepare to treat the injuries.