Output of Electronic Muscle Stimulators: Physical Therapy and Police Models Compared.

Introduction: Both physical therapists and police officers use electrical muscle stimulation. The typical physical therapist unit is attached with adhesive patches while the police models use needle-based electrodes to penetrate clothing. There have been very few papers describing the outputs of these physical therapy EMS (electrical muscle stimulator) units.

Detection of Arcing and High Impedance with Electrical Weapons.

Introduction: Conducted electrical weapons are primarily designed to stop subjects from endangering themselves or others by deploying 2, or more, probes to conduct current via the body to induce motor-nerve mediated muscle contractions, but probe impedance can vary significantly including open circuits from probes failing to complete or maintain a circuit.

Methods: We tested 10 units of the TASER 7 model with a range of impedances and open circuit conditions. Pulse data (stored in the device's memory) were used to predict the load resistances and detect arcing conditions.

Estimation of Physiological Impedance from Neuromuscular Pulse Data.

Introduction: A Conducted Electrical Weapon (CEW) deploys 2, or more, probes to conduct current via the body to induce motor-nerve mediated muscle contractions, but the inter-probe resistances can vary and this can affect charge delivery. For this reason, newer generation CEWs such as the TASER X3, X2 and X26P models have feed-forward control circuits to keep the delivered charge constant regardless of impedance. Our main goal was to explore the load limits for this "charge metering" system.

Electrical Weapon Charge Delivery With Arcing.

Introduction: Human electronic control with the Conducted Electrical Weapon (CEW) has gained widespread acceptance as the preferred law enforcement force option technology due to its dramatic injury and fatal shooting reduction. However, with bulky or baggy clothing, a CEW probe may fail to make direct skin contact and thus arcing is critical to complete the circuit. The goal of the study was to evaluate the ability of modern CEWs to deliver their pulse charges across typical required arcing distances.