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Excited delirium (ExDS), also known as agitated delirium (AgDS) or hyperactive delirium syndrome with severe agitation, is a widely rejected diagnosis characterized as a potentially fatal state of extreme agitation and delirium.
This is usually characterized by an expeditious onset of delirium, mania, psychosis, followed by grandiosity, emotional lability, altered consciousness, hyperthermia, and in extreme cases, death. [1] It is sometimes misdiagnosed as excited delirium (EXD) or catatonia due to the presence of overlapping symptoms.
According to the bill, excited delirium means “a term used to describe a person’s state of agitation, excitability, paranoia, extreme aggression, physical violence, and apparent immunity to ...
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 ...
A leading doctors group on Thursday formally withdrew its approval of a 2009 paper on “excited delirium,” a document that critics say has been used to justify excessive force by police. The ...
California bans doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to 'excited delirium,' a term often applied to Black men in police custody.
Another controversial term, the widely rejected idea of excited delirium, is sometimes used interchangeably with ABD (although according to definitions adopted by the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians in England, "only about one-third of cases of ABD present as excited delirium"). [1]: 1
An emergency physicians group is disavowing “excited delirium,” a controversial term that some police officers, clinicians, medical examiners and court experts have used to explain how an ...