Citation

Kroll MW, Perkins PE, Panescu D. Conf. Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. 2015; 2015: 1343-1348.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers))

DOI

10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318617

PMID

26736517

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: The ubiquitous electric fence is essential to modern agriculture and has saved lives by reducing the number of livestock automobile collisions. Modern safety standards such as IEC 60335-2-76 and UL 69 have played a role in this positive result. However, these standards are essentially based on energy and power (RMS current), which have limited direct relationship to cardiac effects. We compared these standards to bioelectrically more relevant units of charge and average current in view of recent work on VF (ventricular fibrillation) induction and to existing IEC AC current limits.

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