Excited delirium is a set of symptoms that can be severe agitation, sweating, violent behaviour, and the inability to process signals and respond to commands and questions from a police officer or anyone else. We consider it a medical emergency, and I think one of the greatest successes since our last report was the police community and the emergency medical services community starting to work together and treating this as an emergency, and we're starting to see lives saved.
On January 30th, 2008. See this statement in context.