The Latest Breaking News from ACEP

Another Venezuelan Doctor Has Been Detained Despite Working Legally in Texas

Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar, an emergency medicine resident in McAllen, was detained by federal immigration authorities while traveling with her 5-year-old daughter to California for a scheduled asylum interview.

International Business Times · Apr 13

A doctors group calls its 'excited delirium' paper outdated and withdraws its approval

A leading doctors group is formally withdrawing approval of a 2009 paper on “excited delirium.”

The Independent UK · Oct 12, 2023

California becomes first state to ban use of ‘excited delirium’ as cause of death

State prohibits the pseudoscientific diagnosis authorities have frequently cited to justify killings at hands of law enforcement

The Guardian - US · Oct 10, 2023