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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.
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 ...
Officers in many police departments have been taught to look for “superhuman strength” and “police non-compliance” as some symptoms of excited delirium: a syndrome that could kill the ...
When catatonic features are prominent, it is diagnosed as excited catatonia and when absent or subtle, it is identified as Bell's mania. [12] Alternatively, the presence of delirium is recognized as the discerning factor. A difference between the two is that catatonia is viewed from a movement aspect, whereas delirium from consciousness. [7]
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
California bans doctors and medical examiners from attributing deaths to 'excited delirium,' a term often applied to Black men in police custody.
An emergency physicians group is disavowing “excited delirium,” a controversial ... medical examiners and court experts have used to explain how an agitated person could die in custody through ...
Despite some superficial similarities in presentation excited delirium is a distinct (and more serious) condition than stimulant psychosis. The existence of excited delirium is currently debated. Transition to schizophrenia