SGEM Xtra: I’m So Excited – But Don’t Call It Excited Delirium

Studi estratti dal podcast di Dr. Ken Milne

• 2023Revisiting "Excited Delirium": Does the Diagnosis Reflect and Promote Racial Bias?Emergency & ResuscitationForagitated emergency-department and prehospital patients,abandoning the "excited delirium" labelis proposed overthe 2009 ACEP criteriato reduceracially biased diagnosis
• 1985Cocaine-Induced Psychosis and Sudden Death in Recreational Cocaine UsersEmergency & ResuscitationIn 7 cocaine users with excited delirium, forcible restraint was followed by fatal respiratory collapse at cocaine levels far below those of fatal overdoses.
• 2014Medical Conditions and Restraint in Patients Experiencing Excited DeliriumEmergency & ResuscitationIn66 people restrained by police as having excited delirium,emergency department evaluationfoundfew objective high-risk abnormalities and no deaths
• 2016Racial bias in pain assessment and treatment recommendations, and false beliefs about biological differences between blacks and whitesOtherIn 222 white medical students and residents, endorsing false beliefs about race biology predicted lower pain ratings and less accurate treatment for black versus white mock patients.