What happens when an air bubble gets to your heart?
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To add to the previous comments; As your heart contracts it squeezes out the blood in the ventricle, because the blood is incompressible the localised pressure is increased and the blood is forced to flow. On the other side of the heart there’s now an opening region of lower pressure which allows the inflow of blood. As previously mentioned, gas is compressible and therefor a large enough bubble stuck in the heart will prevent the production of a sufficient pressure gradient throughout the vascular system, the gas bubble will just continue to be compressed as the heart is still technically functioning however no blood is being pumped.
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