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Hi Tim. I practiced medicine for the better part of 15+ years, and this included some time in hyperbaric medicine. Blowing compressed air into an open blood vessel would be much more likely to induce an air embolism than a clot. Technically speaking it's basically the same effect as a "blood clot," in that it would potentially block the flow of blood through the vessel, but it doesn't involve activation of the clotting cascade...so it's not a "blood clot" in that sense. Incidentally, this is why hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be dangerous--you have a patient in an atmosphere of more than 1.4 atmospheres of pressure, so if they would have some sort of a ruptured air sac (alveoli) in their lungs, high-pressure air can get into their vessels and cause blockage of a vessel (embolism). Big potential problems. Great series though--thanks for making it available!
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Hi Tim. I practiced medicine for the better part of 15+ years, and this included some time in hyperbaric medicine. Blowing compressed air into an open blood vessel would be much more likely to induce an air embolism than a clot. Technically speaking it's basically the same effect as a "blood clot," in that it would potentially block the flow of blood through the vessel, but it doesn't involve activation of the clotting cascade...so it's not a "blood clot" in that sense. Incidentally, this is why hyperbaric oxygen therapy can be dangerous--you have a patient in an atmosphere of more than 1.4 atmospheres of pressure, so if they would have some sort of a ruptured air sac (alveoli) in their lungs, high-pressure air can get into their vessels and cause blockage of a vessel (embolism). Big potential problems.
Great series though--thanks for making it available!
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