Excited delirium focus of meeting in Guelph (Ontario)

May 16, 2008
By THE CANADIAN PRESS

GUELPH -- Police officers and emergency personnel from across the province were in this city yesterday to learn about the signs of a controversial medical condition called excited delirium.

The conference, organized by the Guelph Police Service, was the first in Canada to simultaneously educate the policing and medical communities about recognizing excited delirium, which has garnered media attention in recent years because of some deaths in police custody.

Suspects in a state of excited delirium have died after being stunned with a Taser. But an expert on excited delirium said deaths have also occurred in people who were not Tasered.