California’s new law lists alternative terms — hyperactive delirium, agitated delirium, and exhaustive mania — that will be restricted along with excited delirium starting in January.

California’s new law lists alternative terms — hyperactive delirium, agitated delirium, and exhaustive mania — that will be restricted along with excited delirium starting in January.

While the college rejected the term, it stood behind the cluster of symptoms it began referring to as "hyperactive delirium" in a 2021 report.

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 ...

RELATED: The new bill will also bar the use of similar non-medical terms like hyperactive delirium, agitated delirium and exhaustive mania.

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 ...

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 ...

An AI model designed to automate assessment of delirium risk increased the number of detected cases among hospitalized older ...

The theory of excited delirium has exonerated law enforcement officers who killed people in their custody. But there's mounting opposition to the term among most prominent medical groups.

Police blame some deaths on “excited delirium.” ER docs consider pulling the plug on the term. Theory has been cited by authorities in trial of two police officers involved in death of Elijah ...