Report by: Crosby Rechtin, Emergency Medicine Resident

Search checked by: Jeffrey S Jones, Research Director, EM Residency Programme

Institution: Grand Rapids Medical Education Research Center/Michigan State University, Michigan, USA

A short-cut review was carried out to establish whether routine cardiac monitoring is necessary in the emergency department in adult patients who have received a Taser discharge. Thirty papers were found using the reported searches, of which five presented the best evidence to answer the clinical question. The author, date and country of …