urban legend vs science - 2nd try...no takers?

[Mike Smertka]

Don't know about electrocautery, but around march I volunteered to be hooked up to an electrotherapy device for a demonstration, at 5ma (considered the highest safe setting on the model) I didn't feel it and there was no motor response in my dominant hand to the "pulse," Except for my normally poor typing skill, I conclude I have no neuro-muscular deficets. I am certainly not dead. :)
   
  Mike

Ronald Simon <Traumamd at nyc.rr.com> wrote:
  I just watched a debreedment of muscle that to me looked extremely 
healthy. It was 5d after a crush injury, the muscle still looked nice 
and pink but it did not jump when touched with the electrocautery. Is 
there any science here or is it a legend that if it doesnt jump it is 
dead.
> Thanks
> ron simon
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