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

Instead, the group released a new policy statement in 2021 using the term “hyperactive delirium,” saying the guidance was not meant as an update or refutation of the paper.

For its part, while ACEP discourages the use of the term "excited delirium," the college said it "recognizes the existence of hyperactive delirium syndrome with severe agitation, a potentially ...

A 2009 ACEP white paper supporting the term — widely cited by defenders of excited delirium — should be considered "outdated and inaccurate," the group's President Dr. Christopher Kang added ...

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 will vote at an October meeting on whether to formally disavow its 2009 position paper supporting excited delirium as a diagnosis that helped undergird ...

Scientific term "excited delirium" under scrutiny in Colorado 04:12. Colorado may soon become only the second state in the country to ban the use of a controversial and pseudo-scientific term ...