Everything about STUN

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: STUNA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Barriers to recruiting primary care practices for implementation research during COVID-19: A qualitative study of practice coaches from the Stop Unhealthy (STUN) Alcohol Use Now trialInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: A critical study of electrical stunning and the Jewish method of slaughter (shechita)The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Protocol for assessing brain function in fish and the effectiveness of methods used to stun and kill themCited 105 times
5. Go sideways: Network address translationA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Traversal Using Relays around NATA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Protocol for assessing brain function in fish and the effectiveness of methods used to stun and kill them

  S. C. Kestin, D. H. Robb, J. W. van de Vis · 2002 · Veterinary Record · 105 citations

• Effects of Cocaine Intoxication on the Threshold for Stun Gun Induction of Ventricular Fibrillation

  Dhanunjaya Lakkireddy, Donald Wallick, Kay Ryschon · 2006 · Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 88 citations

• Behaviour of pigs exposed to mixtures of gases and the time required to stun and kill them: welfare implications

  A. B. M. Raj · 1999 · Veterinary Record · 81 citations

• Cardiac stun in infants undergoing extracorporeal membrane oxygenation

  Gerard R. Martin, Billie L. Short, Carol Abbott · 1991 · The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 78 citations

• ‘From stun to gradual balance’- women’s experiences of living with gestational diabetes mellitus

  Margareta Persson, Anna Winkvist, Ingrid Mogren · 2009 · Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences · 73 citations

• Electrical stunning of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss): factors that affect stun duration

  D.H.F Robb, M O' Callaghan, J.A Lines · 2002 · Aquaculture · 67 citations

• The effect of electrical head-only stun duration on electroencephalographic-measured seizure and brain amino acid neurotransmitter release

  C.J. Cook, C.E. Devine, K.V. Gilbert · 1995 · Meat Science · 59 citations

• Ventricular Fibrillation after Stun-Gun Discharge

  Paul J. Kim, Wayne H. Franklin · 2005 · New England Journal of Medicine · 57 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Barriers to recruiting primary care practices for implementation research during COVID-19: A qualitative study of practice coaches from the Stop Unhealthy (STUN) Alcohol Use Now trial

  Casey P. Balio, Sean R. Riley, Debbie Grammer · 2022 · Implementation Research and Practice · 12 citations

• Humane stunning or stun/killing in the slaughter of wild-caught finfish: The scientific evidence base

  Katy L James, Salvador Prats Aparicio, Nilantha S Jayasuriya · 2025 · Animal Welfare · 8 citations

• Temporal Dynamics of Beta Power Related to the Stun Effect in Parkinson's Disease Patients after Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery

  Martijn G.J. de Neeling, Stijn Geraats, Bart E.K.S. Swinnen · 2025 · Movement Disorders · 7 citations

• STUN: Reinforcement-Learning-Based Optimization of Kernel Scheduler Parameters for Static Workload Performance

  Hyeonmyeong Lee, Sungmin Jung, Heeseung Jo · 2022 · Applied Sciences · 5 citations

• Pigs exposed to nitrogen, argon or carbon dioxide filled high-expansion foam: behavioural responses, stun process and blood lactate concentration

  C. Lindahl, E. Sindhøj, M.A. Gerritzen · 2025 · animal · 3 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕A critical study of electrical stunning and the Jewish method of slaughter (shechita)Solomon David Sassoon · 1955
• Cardiac metabolism in health and diseaseSalah Abdel-aleem, James E. Lowe · 1998
• 📕Blamed and BrokenCurt Petrovich · 2019
• 📕The effect of exercise on glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and superoxide dismutase activities in the post-ischemic heartAndrew J. Gow · 1994
• Delayed preconditioning and adaptive cardioprotectionDerek M. Yellon · 1998
• 📕The legalised cruelty of shechitaArnold Leese · 1940
• 📕United States of AmericaAmnesty International · 1996
• 📕Electric-Shock Weapons Tasers and PolicingAbi Dymond · 2021

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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