Another in-custody death. Are they preventable?

A death yesterday in Orere Point leads to the question, what can we do to minimise these deaths?

20 years ago the American College of Emergency Physicians were among the first groups of doctors that decided that exc.ited delirium was a ‘real’ diagnosis. Fast forward to 2024, and they’ve changed their minds and emphatically recommend against emergency physicians even using the term. They’ve learned.

Has that knowledge made it out into the public and police forces? And if it has, why do people keep dying, and what can be done about it?

The story of the discredited “excited delirium” is a bleak one.

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