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B. Bobby Chiong, MD Profile picture
B. Bobby Chiong, MD
@brianchiong
Interventional radiologist, bass player, jiu-jitsu practitioner, beer league hockey winger, motorcycle commuter, occasional raver.✌️❤️🤝🙏 #DocsWhoRock
Aug 24, 2019 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
Here we go. My first #medtwitter #tweetorial. A subject near and dear to my heart. Venous air embolism.

If I have an IV line and someone injects air into it, how much will it take to kill me?

#FOAMed #FOAMrad

1/ This 2001 paper from the journal Anesthesiology puts the amount of air needed to kill at 200-300 mL or 3-5 mL/kg.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1117610…

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