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For example, where has excited delirium come up, and trying to understand why it is they are finding what seems to have been the case so far, that it's majority Black men and other people of color this term is being attributed to ? and is it exclusively in the context of law enforcement where this term is coming up ? Is it exclusively in the context of restraints being used that this comes up and deaths are attributed to excited delirium ? There's a lot that legislators can do to really leverage their powers as investigators to look at this and bring public attention to it more broadly. – Joanna Naples-Mitchell	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You can't say that someone dies from any form of delirium, it's like saying, what is the cause of death ? Chest pain. What is the cause of death ? I don't know, shortness of breath. In a way, it's as nonsensical. – Michele Heisler	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Delirium is a symptom of an underlying cause and not an independent diagnosis. – Michele Heisler	Found on CNN 2 years ago
She knows where she is, who she is -- she's as sharp as a tack, usually, when somebody comes out of a coma like that, they say that the patients have delirium where they're very confused. From day one, she hasn't experienced any of that. – Andrew Lerman	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We are looking at learning disability, delirium and end of life, as well as further additions, we have a unique solution that is transferable across ethnicities and backgrounds... users can see the impact they are having. – Peter Shergill	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Even clinicians would have a difficult time diagnosing an excited delirium, when you employ ketamine you better be darn sure that this is excited delirium and not something else. – Walter Dunn .	Found on CNN 3 years ago
They said I didn't need to be hospitalized. So they definitely wasn't going to give me ketamine until the police asked for it, i definitely wasn't experiencing excited delirium, I can tell you that. – Elijah McKnight in 2019	Found on CNN 3 years ago
COVID-19 patients can be intubated for two to three weeks ; a quarter require ventilators for 30 or more days, these are very prolonged intubations, and patients need a lot of sedation. ' ICU delirium' was a well-known condition before COVID, and the hallucinations may be less an effect of the virus and more an effect of the prolonged sedation. – Aakriti Gupta	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think the providers are so taxed that you're trying to keep the patient alive, during these times of crisis, you're just trying to keep the patient alive. Things like delirium prevention are just like extra credit assignments. – Sharon Inouye	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Architects are crazy. We do all-nighters, we used to do five nights no sleep, you are very exhausted so there's a bit of delirium sets in. – Zaha Hadid	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's time, there's a social, economic and political crisis. Economically we're completely lost and in a delirium. – Deiby Jaimes	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them! – Louis-Ferdinand Céline	added by anonymous 9 years ago

For example, where has excited delirium come up, and trying to understand why it is they are finding what seems to have been the case so far, that it's majority Black men and other people of color this term is being attributed to ? and is it exclusively in the context of law enforcement where this term is coming up ? Is it exclusively in the context of restraints being used that this comes up and deaths are attributed to excited delirium ? There's a lot that legislators can do to really leverage their powers as investigators to look at this and bring public attention to it more broadly.

– Joanna Naples-Mitchell

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You can't say that someone dies from any form of delirium, it's like saying, what is the cause of death ? Chest pain. What is the cause of death ? I don't know, shortness of breath. In a way, it's as nonsensical.

– Michele Heisler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Delirium is a symptom of an underlying cause and not an independent diagnosis.

– Michele Heisler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

She knows where she is, who she is -- she's as sharp as a tack, usually, when somebody comes out of a coma like that, they say that the patients have delirium where they're very confused. From day one, she hasn't experienced any of that.

– Andrew Lerman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We are looking at learning disability, delirium and end of life, as well as further additions, we have a unique solution that is transferable across ethnicities and backgrounds... users can see the impact they are having.

– Peter Shergill

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Even clinicians would have a difficult time diagnosing an excited delirium, when you employ ketamine you better be darn sure that this is excited delirium and not something else.

– Walter Dunn .

Found on CNN
3 years ago

They said I didn't need to be hospitalized. So they definitely wasn't going to give me ketamine until the police asked for it, i definitely wasn't experiencing excited delirium, I can tell you that.

– Elijah McKnight in 2019

Found on CNN
3 years ago

COVID-19 patients can be intubated for two to three weeks ; a quarter require ventilators for 30 or more days, these are very prolonged intubations, and patients need a lot of sedation. ' ICU delirium' was a well-known condition before COVID, and the hallucinations may be less an effect of the virus and more an effect of the prolonged sedation.

– Aakriti Gupta

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think the providers are so taxed that you're trying to keep the patient alive, during these times of crisis, you're just trying to keep the patient alive. Things like delirium prevention are just like extra credit assignments.

– Sharon Inouye

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Architects are crazy. We do all-nighters, we used to do five nights no sleep, you are very exhausted so there's a bit of delirium sets in.

– Zaha Hadid

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's time, there's a social, economic and political crisis. Economically we're completely lost and in a delirium.

– Deiby Jaimes

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

– Louis-Ferdinand Céline

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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