jillio
New Member
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2006
- Messages
- 60,232
- Reaction score
- 19
On the flip side, I can see where the ability to sign would be useful in many situations for hearing people. Like when one is intubed, for example.
Excellent point!
On the flip side, I can see where the ability to sign would be useful in many situations for hearing people. Like when one is intubed, for example.
Pardon my ignorance but what is "intubed"?On the flip side, I can see where the ability to sign would be useful in many situations for hearing people. Like when one is intubed, for example.
Pardon my ignorance but what is "intubed"?
OUCH!!.. .yeah signing would be helpful if one had a tube (or anything else) jammed down their throat. The reality for most people is that they would grap a pencil and paper though. I don't think learning sign language for those rare (if ever) occasions would really pay off in the long run.Intubated----medical procedure, tube down the throat.
OUCH!!.. .yeah signing would be helpful if one had a tube (or anything else) jammed down their throat. The reality for most people is that they would grap a pencil and paper though. I don't think learning sign language for those rare (if ever) occasions would really pay off in the long run.
Cueing would work, no foreign language learning going on.
No, but mouth movement is....hardly appropriate for soemone who is intubed.
Mouth movement ....hardly appropriate??? :roll:
Do you know what it is to be intubated?
loml... if you know what it's like to be entubed then how can you expect to have good mouth movement with a tube down your throat? I would imagine it would be difficult if even possible.Yes.
loml... if you know what it's like to be entubed then how can you expect to have good mouth movement with a tube down your throat? I would imagine it would be difficult if even possible.
loml... if you know what it's like to be entubed then how can you expect to have good mouth movement with a tube down your throat? I would imagine it would be difficult if even possible.
Hmmmmm.........:roll:
RD - There are three types of intubation for the trachea.
1. via the mouth
2. via the nose
3. cricothyroid membrane - for men, it can be located just below the Adam's apple,(it is the soft spot).
Chances are that if an individual is having to be intubated via the mouth or the crothyroid membrane (you may have seen this on ER, they are unconcious, it is an emergency or for surgey purposes), they are unable obviously to sign or cue.
If an individual is intubated via the nose, done after the patient is stable, even with a tracheotomy (which is done by a surgeon), the tubes are taped to the nose and the throat. Lets face it here RD, people in these situations are usually quit ill, any form of communication would be wonderful, but I certainly would not expect these same people to learn a foreign languge. Small mouth movements for cueing are the least of their worries.
On the flip side, I can see where the ability to sign would be useful in many situations for hearing people. Like when one is intubed, for example.
On the flip side, I can see where the ability to sign would be useful in many situations for hearing people. Like when one is intubed, for example.