Synopsis
A film made for police, firemen and first responders to alert them to special care that needs to be taken when resuscitating a laryngectomy - a person whose larynx has been removed, usually due to cancer.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Released
- 1972-01-01
- Running time
- 11 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Smell my shoe! · Spuzz · 2006-01-16
AMAZING film here. This starts with a traffic accident. Paramedics (who look suspiciously like milkmen) immediately put an oxygen mask on one of the people involved. But wait! A guy suspiciously breaks through the crowd that have congregated! He says he needs to talk to the paramedics! The cop lets him through. Both men are laryngectomees! People who have had their voice box taken out because of cancer! So the paramedic, uh does mouth to throat resecitation on the neck hole and THEN puts a oxygen mask on it. Now, why they needed to find out all this information from the other layrengectomee…
★★★★ · ...and Let Me Know · Christine Hennig · 2004-11-08
Straightforward 60s film for emergency personnel for dealing with persons who have had a laryngectomy, and thus breathe through a hole in the neck. This is important information to know and itÂs presented in a straightforward non-sensationalistic manner, so you donÂt want to laugh at this film at all. One interesting part of it features a picnic of such people, and theyÂre all chatting away with each other, using the Âesophagal method of speech, which sounds suspiciously like the same process kids use to burp on command. Still, there but for the grace of God go IÂÂthese people actually…
