CNN Weekend Early Start April 21, 2013 10:34:00
Receiving patients and treating them. now as so your questions, patients who are intubated and sedated cannot talk. i think that's a critical point here. sedation means that they are either unconscious or semi conscious. and being intubated means there's a breathing tube through their vocal cords so they can't talk. they will be able to talk once their sedation is over. verbally if the breathing tube is out and nonverbally if they have no sedation, but still have breathing tube they can communicate via eye movements or the patients can write. >> what was the purpose of the sedation? >> well, a...