What happens physiologically to make someone unconscious during this kind of hold? How do you know you’re not suffocating someone or causing serious damage?
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You are suffocating someone . If you continue the hold after they are unconscious, you will cause serious damage and they will eventually die.
There’s two different ways to accomplish this depending on the hold. Cutting off the airway and the blood supply. Cutting off the airway prevents you from inhaling oxygen. You have several minutes of oxygen in your brain so this takes longer. After a few minutes you will deplete the oxygen in you bloodstream and your brain cells will be unable to undergo cell respiration causing them to die.
Cutting off blood supply basically involves a hold where the flow from your corotid arteries (which feed blood from your aorta to your brain) is obstructed. With this, your brain can get all the oxygen that’s in your blood stream so they will be starved of oxygen in a matter of seconds.
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