Recognizing, Responding, Preventing, and Investigating Arrest- Related and Sudden, In-Custody Deaths

Excited delirium events have been around for a long time. Although not a medical or psychological diagnosis, the term can be found in an 1798 medical treatise and in many contemporary medical and scientific articles. Although there are 4 broad evidence-based categorical causes of excited delirium behavior, often only drug-induced behaviors are discussed and taught. The IPICD Excited Delirium Instructor program identifies, discusses, and teaches all the categorical causes of excited delirium behavior, as well as how to identify the many behavioral cues associated with each categorical cause.

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TOPICS
The IPICD Instructor program is based upon scientific, medical, experiential, and legal research and is the most current multidisciplinary program available on the subject. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• History of sudden death
• Who is at risk for sudden death?
• Pre-disposing factors
• History of excited delirium
• Categories of excited delirium
• Excited delirium syndrome
• Agitated Chaotic Events (ACE) and sudden death (categories, behaviors, & responses)
• Causation (scientific, legal, medical, general, & specific)
• Behavioral Cues (psychological, communication, & physiological)
• 911 call taker and dispatcher roles
• Excited Delirium Intervention Best Practices
• Electronic control devices (ECD)-associated deaths
• Positional asphyxia (science v. non-science)
• Neck restraints and arrest-related/sudden deaths (AR-SD)
• Restraint methods and AR-SD
• Pepper spray and AR-SD
• Illicit drugs and AR-SD (e.g., cocaine, methamphetamine, Ecstacy, etc.)
• Prescription drugs and AR-SD (e.g., Zoloft®, Adderall XR®, Ritalin®, etc.)
• Organic drugs and AR-SD (e.g., Salvia, etc.)
• Synthetic drugs and AR-SD (e.g., bath salts, etc.)
• Over-the-Counter drugs and AR-SD (e.g., Aspirin, etc.)
• Poly-drug combinations and AR-SD
• Substance abuse v. dependence
• Bacteria and its role in AR-SD
• Epilepsy and AR-SD (SUDEP, behaviors, & responses)
• Diabetes and AR-SD (2 categories, behaviors, & responses)
• Delirium (types, causes, behaviors, & responses)
• Dementia (types, causes, behaviors, & responses)
• Hyponatremia (causes, behaviors, & responses)
• Alcohol dependency, abuse, and withdrawal (behaviors & responses)
• Sickle cell trait and sudden death
• Energy drinks
• Mental disorders (types, causes, behaviors, & responses) and AR-SD (e.g., Bipolar;
• Schizophrenia; Panic; OCD; PTSD; ADHD)
• Autism (causes, behaviors, & responses)
• Suicide-by-cop
• Mental illness and excited delirium: The response disconnect
• Developing an excited delirium policy
• Developing excited delirium and Agitated Chaotic Event training
• ADA issues;
• HIPAA issues;
• Transport issues;
• Psychological autopsy and its use in AR-SD
• Report writing for excited delirium, ACE, and AR-SD
• Teaching a User-Level program

TUITION
     $435 per person. Materials include a program workbook, table top exercises, 911 protocol, handouts, access to smartphone applications, special supplemental pages on the IPICD Website to stay current with new research and analyses, certificate, and more.