Excited Delirium... A frightening pair of words.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

In reading about taser related deaths, I keep running into the words "excited delirium" being bandied about by ME's and other authorities as the cause of death in many of the cases.

So I Googled excited delirium "excited delirium" and wow!

Apparently, the only people who die of this malady are people in police custody and all but a few have been tasered. This seems to be a serious trend.

Is this a new catch-all?

[patdem]

1. Sounds like a 'catch all' phrase to me..if there is only one circumstance

and the witness's are all biased....and not medical people. Sounds like the witch hunts in Salem...did they not use similar terminology if not the same?

[kliljedahl]

2. Shorthand for this

Positional and Restraint Asphyxia

Kinda like "ergonomics", a made up term describing nothing.

Link: http://www.educationoptions.org/programs/articles/SuddenDeath.htm


Keith’s Barbeque Central

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

3. Interesting link....

Thanks for posting it.

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The term "in-custody" death syndrome was first used to describe unexplained deaths when there was no apparent cause other than a police arrest. It was then observed that these individuals were often injured and sometimes beaten severely as a result of violent conflicts with police. With further investigation and during litigation it was proposed that there appeared to be a risk of death during the restraint of these same individuals who were also exhibiting an extreme form of behavioral
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You don't know what it's like to be an American until you have the crap beat out of you by the police while you're handcuffed. Been there, done that. In '72 for the crime of doing 35 in a 25 zone and having long hair and anti war stickers on my VW minivan.

Experiences like that let one see through the lies.