The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) voted to stop using the term "excited delirium" when referring to patients with hyperactive delirium, joining a host of other medical societies that ...

The American College of Emergency Physicians has said it no longer endorses the term "excited delirium" to describe the controversial syndrome authorities blamed for the 2018 death of Gregory Edwards ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The Colorado House of Representatives passed legislation barring the term “excited delirium” from being used in first responder training or incident reports, or from being listed as a ...

Brooks Walsh hadn’t questioned whether “excited delirium syndrome” was a legitimate medical diagnosis before the high-profile police killings of Elijah McClain in Colorado in 2019 and George Floyd in ...

Colorado may soon become only the second state in the country to ban the use of a controversial and pseudo-scientific term called "excited delirium." The now-debunked diagnosis has been widely used by ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

In her late 60s, your mom goes to the hospital for a urinary tract infection. Within hours, she’s confused and agitated, insisting she’s at home and not in a hospital bed. Medical professionals call ...

The term ‘excited delirium’ has been associated with a number of recent high-profile deaths in law enforcement custody. George Floyd, Tommy McGlothen, Eric Parsa, and for Ronald Greene, the Union ...