The term ‘excited delirium’ has been associated with a number of recent high-profile deaths in law enforcement custody. George Floyd, Tommy McGlothen, Eric Parsa, and for Ronald Greene, the Union ...

Bella Quinto-Collins was celebrating her 21st birthday with her family on Sunday when she got the news they'd all been waiting for: California had just become the first state to ban “excited delirium” ...

In her late 60s, your mom goes to the hospital for a urinary tract infection. Within hours, she's confused and agitated, insisting she's at home and not in a hospital bed.

For the first time in more than 25 years, the APA has updated its delirium guideline, going beyond psychiatry with ...

Delirium affects many hospitalized older Australians, and while it can have many complications, treatments are limited.

In 2019, a 23-year-old, slightly built man with autism spectrum disorder went to an Aurora, Colorado convenience store to buy a drink. Elijah McClain was wearing a ski-type mask—an odd choice for ...

A multi-center randomized controlled trial with critically ill adults aged 50 years and older admitted to intensive care ...

If you are starting to notice cognitive changes in your parents or aging loved ones, you might want to educate yourself on the differences between delirium and dementia. As our county ages, a paradigm ...

SAN DIEGO — "'C'mon, man...dude, it's not like that, man...No, you can't do that...help...help" Seconds later, 45-year-old Buddy Nichols was dead. A San Diego ...

Delirium affects up to 50% of patients in the ICU, especially those who are mechanically ventilated and sedated. Delirium is ...

Let’s start this blog entry with a story. A woman in her eighties lives alone (her husband died two years earlier). A friend phones her and is alarmed that whereas two days ago the old lady was fine, ...

Loan Ngyuen tries her best to steer her nine-year-old son from logging on to Google and typing in his last name. She knows what he will find. He will find articles about his dad, a lot of them. The ...