Troon attorney vs kangaroo court - "I CAN'T BREATHE"
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No, you're absolutely in the wrong here.
Positional asphyxia doesn't mean you can't breathe at all, it means you just can't breathe enough. You are in fact breathing if you're talking, there's nothing else that can provide enough airflow down there but air being pulled in and pushed out of your lungs, you can't just magically expand and contract your throat like a frog to create airflow.
Now in positional asphyxiation you can breathe, so you can also talk... Barely. To indicate the possibility of positional asphyxiation in a healthy adult you would either be hearing a whispery wheeze of a voice to indicate partial airway constriction. Or talking in very short shal.. -huff- low... -huff- brea.. -huff- ..ths that can barely manage one syllable at a time, to indicate diaphragm/chest restriction. If you can project "I can't breathe!" in a way the whole room can hear then you are not in danger.
no, i am not my father is a respiratory therapist, my god mother is an oncology nurse, I have asthma, I have worked in the UPMC BMST, look, you CAN make sounds without sufficient oxygen inhalation
Great, but when most people say breathe they mean moving air in and out of your lungs. They aren't breaking out the pulse oximeter to check if someone is getting sufficient oxygen for respiration. I think this seems to come from a misunderstanding of what the lay person means when they say breathing and confusing that with respiration.
Vocal chords require airflow to make noise, the only source of sustained airflow is from the lings, so if there's enough airflow to talk normally then you are breathing by any basic measure. Any respiratory problems after that don't count as "can't breathe" but are a separate issue.