Just posted this elsewhere, but it's so perfect here as the other half of this medical team:
Fun fact, small air bubbles won't cause problems. I can't remember how big they have to be. I'm not going to look it up because I don't want to be on a list.
Yeah realistically it isn't a big concern. Like you should try not to inject air into people's veins, but the minimum amount that is likely to cause problems is about 20 cc (which is a lot), but it's likely to take much more than that to be fatal, usually in excess of 150 cc.
learned this when i saw an inch long airbubble in an IV line slowly making its way towards my arm and i panic called a nurse who said that it'd take a lot more air than that to cause a problem, but disconnected the line and squeezed the air bubble out anyway.
it's a lot. like 50ml plus.
Aww look at that face. I would not stay mad for long.
as a type 1 diabetic, this is like a one-sentence horror
Yum yum embolism
