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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I recently got a drip-infusion and right at the very front of the tube there was quite some air 😧 I thought it was weird and I was a bit concerned, but the nurse said, that a little bubble wouldn’t matter 😡

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