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Is it harmful if air bubble entered in blood stream?
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Just a few: You can see this happening all the time in intravenous lines. It's not harmful unless enough enters to produce vapor lock in the right side of the heart or the large arteries. The gas will pass rapidly into the lungs and get breathed out.
Answered 3/17/2020
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