Still talking about his background in his ME field. DW asking about any books or articles published by DiMaio. DeMaio saying “forensic pathology and one on gunshot wounds and a handbook on forensic patholgy and one on excited delerium syndrome”. Wife is a forensic nurse (I think that’s what he said).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Di_Maio
Very probably apropos of nothing, but acccording to Wiki...
"Excited delirium" was first explicitly described in 1985 as a condition relating to acute cocaine intoxication.
Prior to this it was referred to as "Bell's Mania"; first described by Luther Bell in 1849.
The pathophysiology of excited delirium has been unclear, but likely involves multiple factors. These may include positional asphyxia, hyperthermia, drug toxicity, and/or catecholamine-induced fatal cardiac arrhythmias.
A substantial majority of fatal case reports involved men, most commonly African American. Excited delirium patients commonly have acute drug intoxication, generally psychostimulants such as cocaine, PCP and methamphetamine.