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While there is no national database tracking cases of “excited delirium” deaths in police custody, data in one study cited by the Virginia Law Review showed that from 2010 to 2020, “there ...
California bans doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to 'excited delirium,' a term often applied to Black men in police custody.
The term excited delirium has been used increasingly over the last 15 years to explain how a person experiencing severe agitation can die suddenly through no fault of the police.
Throughout the 19th and early-20th century, "excited delirium" was used to describe an emotional and agitated state related to drug overdose [19] and withdrawal [20] or poisonings, [21] similar to catatonia or Bell's mania, with some believing them to be the same condition.
Delirium tremens was also given an alternate medical definition since at least the 1840s, being known as mania a potu, which translates to 'mania from drink'. [28] The Belgian beer "Delirium Tremens," introduced in 1988, is a direct reference and also uses a pink elephant as its logo to highlight one of the symptoms of delirium tremens. [29] [30]
In November 2003 in Las Vegas, ... Video and audio of the event were recorded by the X-26's mounted camera. ... Excited delirium has been questioned as a medical ...
The American College of Emergency Physicians will vote at an October meeting on whether to formally disavow its 2009 position paper supporting excited delirium as a diagnosis that helped undergird ...
Police responded to a report of a break-in at a home and encountered Burns. Officers tased him 15 times, leading to his death. His death was initially attributed to excited delirium, but it was reclassified as a homicide in 2023. [4] 2010-01-21: Wall, Timothy (46) New Jersey (Newark)