I’ve seen it featured in medical dramas on television: there’s an air bubble, either from a syringe or from an IV bag, that gets into a patient’s bloodstream. Smash cut to the patient collapsing from a terrible stroke.
It’s scary to think about — something as simple as a routine vaccination or injection could leave you incapacitated or dead, just from a little bit of gas slipping in where it doesn’t belong.
…right?
Or is this a medical myth, and you can handle some air in your bloodstream without issue?