LogFAQs > #941916265

OhhhJa posted...

excited delirium

EXD has gained increasing public attention recently due to the number of post-mortem explanations offered by medical examiners regarding the death of individuals being restrained by police or being taken into custody. This diagnosis has caused concern because EXD is not a currently recognized medical or psychiatric diagnosis according to either the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IVTR) of the American Psychiatric Association or the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-9) of the World Health Organization. Likewise, the authors of one review article found enough evidence in the literature to suggest that excited delirium, rhabdomyolysis and neuroleptic malignant syndrome might represent the clinical spectrum of a single disease.5 ........... the possible association with other life-threatening syndromes only gives impetus to the need for critical emergency medical intervention when encountering a person thought to be in a state of excited delirium.

"Uh no they were just sick. With something. And that means that I shouldn't face consequences for behaving like a fucking neanderthal because you wouldn't normally expect someone to die from being choked for almost nine minutes otherwise and it's not my responsibility to take into consideration the possibility that the people I choke might be sick with... something (not even during a pandemic)... and could potentially end up murdering them. Which is why it isn't murder. Also felt no need to get medical help for the person I was choking for, you know, obvious reasons. Definitely not murder though."

---

Hi