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Joygernaut t1_j9vw0ju wrote

Reply to comment by djublonskopf in After a surgery, what happens to the air that was inside the incision? by cimmic

Thank you! I am a short stay surgical nurse, and I have often explained to patients that the air that is blown up and their abdominal cavity will be absorbed by their body, but I did not know that they used to CO2 and this information will significantly help when I inform people have their body will process the gas that is used to blow up the abdominal cavity during laparoscopic surgery. Thankyou!!!

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NobodysFavorite t1_j9wwj14 wrote

Also oxygen at the wrong partial pressures is toxic.

The body is very good at detecting and removing CO2 so we take advantage of that.

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