eli5 Why are air embolisms so deadly? Like, what about an air bubble can’t your body fix pretty easily?

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I would have thought that an air bubble gets popped and we move on. That the gas eventually dissolves and gets passed somehow.

So, what’s going on? Why does the heart stop so violently? It acts like there was an implosion on the inside…

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Man, one of the freakiest things on TV that I will never forget because it scarred me is when they blow the air into that guy’s IV on Orange Is The New Black. Absolutely horrifying.

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