Ho Jeffrey D, Clinton Joseph E, Lappe Mark A, Heegaard William G, Williams Martin F, Miner James R
Department of Emergency Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415, USA.
J Emerg Med. 2011 Sep;41(3):317-23. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2009.09.031. Epub 2010 Feb 1.
The TASER(®) X26 Conducted Electrical Weapon (CEW) provides painful stimuli and neuromuscular incapacitation to potentially violent persons. Use by law enforcement in society is common. Presenting a CEW is known to de-escalate some situations. Health care personnel sometimes encounter violent persons within the confines of the hospital. CEW use by health care security personnel has not been described.
The objective is to describe results from the introduction of the CEW into a hospital environment.
Upon introducing the CEW into an urban hospital campus, standardized reports were made describing all CEW use by hospital security. Reports were retrospectively reviewed for the first 12 months of CEW use. Collected data included force options used, potential injuries avoided, witness comments, outcomes, and whether the CEW required full activation or if inactive presentation was sufficient to control the situation. Rates of security personnel injuries were also gathered. Descriptive analysis was applied.
Twenty-seven CEW deployments occurred: four were inactive presentation, 20 were presentation with LASER sight activation, and three were probe deployments with a 5-s delivery of electrical current. Two persons required evaluation for minor injuries not related to CEW use. Witnesses reported that in all incidents, injuries were likely avoided due to CEW presentation or use. CEW use aborted one suicide attempt. Personnel injury rates decreased during the study period.
CEW introduction into a health care setting demonstrated the ability to avert and control situations that could result in further injury to subjects, patients, and personnel. This correlates with a decrease in injury for hospital personnel. Further study is recommended for validation.
泰瑟X26电击武器（CEW）能对潜在暴力人员产生疼痛刺激并导致神经肌肉失能。执法部门在社会中使用该武器很常见。使用CEW已知能缓和一些情况。医护人员有时会在医院范围内遇到暴力人员。但尚未有关于医护安保人员使用CEW的描述。
目的是描述在医院环境中引入CEW的结果。
在将CEW引入一家城市医院院区后，制作了标准化报告，描述医院安保人员使用CEW的所有情况。对CEW使用的前12个月的报告进行回顾性审查。收集的数据包括使用的武力选项、避免的潜在伤害、目击者评论、结果，以及CEW是否需要完全激活，或者非激活展示是否足以控制局面。还收集了安保人员受伤率。应用描述性分析。
共进行了27次CEW部署：4次为非激活展示，20次为激活激光瞄准器展示，3次为探针部署并持续5秒放电。有两人因与CEW使用无关的轻伤需要评估。目击者报告称，在所有事件中，由于展示或使用CEW，很可能避免了受伤。CEW的使用中止了一次自杀企图。在研究期间，人员受伤率有所下降。
在医疗环境中引入CEW显示出有能力避免和控制可能导致对象、患者及人员进一步受伤的情况。这与医院人员受伤情况的减少相关。建议进行进一步研究以验证。
