Recognition, Prevention, and Management of Excited Delirium and Sudden, In-Custody Death Instructor Course
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This two-day, tuition-based instructor course provides the latest reliable scientific and medical research concerning excited delirium and sudden, in-custody deaths. Restraint, pepper spray, and electronic control devices have received massive negative attention often due to a lack of factual research and accurate information. This instructor course will demonstrate that the primary causes of death in almost 100 percent of these events are illegal drugs, pre-existing medical conditions, and/or other related issues and not the improper use-of-force or the misuse of restraint or other defensive tools or tactics used by those attempting to restrain individuals.
The primary focus of the course is to educate attendees about how to recognize the behavioral cues that a high-risk individual for excited delirium and sudden, in-custody death may exhibit. If your agency has a holding cell, or if you have ever handcuffed anyone, confronted a person who was mentally ill, tried to restrain an active fighter, or had to transport a restrained individual, this instructor course is a must for you and for your agency. Course topics include, but are not limited to:
- Scientific causation and fallacies
- Actual case studies (including autopsy and legal findings)
- Psychological behavioral cues
- Communication behavioral cues
- Physiological behavioral cues
- Pre-disposing factors
- Incident "Best Practices"
- History of sudden death & excited delirium
- Excited delirium syndrome
- Who is at risk for sudden death?
- Liability issues (including risk management concerns)
- Contemporary theories of sudden death (including electronic control deivces, hogtying, neck restraints, restraint methods, OC, etc.)
- Asphyxia and transport issues
- Mental illness & excited delirium: Bridging the CIT gap
- Excited delirium policy (sample is provided to attendees)
- Investigating sudden and in-cusotdy deaths: An overview
- Psychological autopsy (including the importance of incident/arrest reports)
- ADA issues
- Report writing for sudden and in-custody deahts
- Teaching a user-level program (includes roll-call poster)
In June 2005, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware held that Plaintiffs were able to argue that the evidence presented established that the County did have studies about positional asphyxia in its possession as early as 2001, and also presented evidence to adequately establish that the County may be liable for failure to train its veteran police officers in positional asphyxia and cocaine-induced excited delirium for new officers, which defeated the County's Motion for Summary Judgement. This course will provide the information to reasonably train employees and others about the many medical, psychological, and other issues about sudden and in-custody deaths that may present themselves to first responders.
The primary goals of the program are to provide a turn-key, cost effective, officer-level training program and department guidance enabling attendees to return to their respective agencies to easily and efficiently instruct their officers and others in strategies to avoid and/or prevent sudden and in-custody deaths by identifying sudden death behaviors, actions to be taken upon identification, managing the incident, and its aftermath, etc.
Last updated 08.11.08
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209 South Stephanie Street | Suite B-249 | Henderson, Nevada 89012
Call: 1.866.944.4723
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