Low pressure + stiff walls = heroin addict?
I personally feel this varies person to person. Iāve had to try and find veins on people, and they all had a pulse.
On the flip side, I cannulated some radial arteries that were extremely deep and I has to use ultrasound.
Because every good ghost story ends with "and some say heās still out/in thereā¦ to this dayā¦ "
Ha! No such thing as pedantic in medicine and yes you are right!
I find that the variation for cannulating / phlebotomy is more about size of the superficial veins vs adiposity of the patient, the underlying anatomy doesnāt change that much. With regard to arteries they are pretty much always in the same spot no matter the size and Iāve stuck some big fucking needles into some groins when I needed that femoral stab.
So @greydoc,
Super cliff notes, and general guess because we only know so much that can be validated
Does the idea of a 2mm vein obstruction in your lungs being āasymptoticā sound ballpark possible?
I just canāt wrap my head around something that large not causing issues
Much riskier to try to remove it I bet.
Ok literally just a thought experiment
Absolutely do not want and do not do, literally makes my skin crawl to imagine something inhaled into your lung
But just curious, does the glass or bio goo, used to make things biocompatible
Does that compatibility change if itās inside the āair partā of the lungā¦ I have no idea the medical term
Versus inside your flesh like inside a vein or under the Dermis?
Or would that still cause an infection or badness somehow?
Might depend a lot on what part of the world you live in, but for me, this thread currently is having its first anniversary!
Sooooā¦
For this thread, Pilgrim who started it, and this insane community! 
My baby is having a birthday
A perfect unicorn gift from Aunty @Coma Thanks
There are 4018 replies with an estimated read time of 553 minutes .
That is over 9 hours of some really ridiculous conversations also some equally interesting and civilised ones
Well done US
Happy arbitrary star cycle celebration, Thready!!
Well note, @Coma !! ^^
Alsoā¦ if it has a birthday, it needs a name!
So, @Pilgrimsmaster , itās time to fulfill your duties and name your thread baby! 
(and the title is itās job, so not a valid name!) 
That is part of the reason I constantly keep an eye on this thread. I donāt want to have to spend weeks trying to catch up again 
. Besides, the conversations here are super interesting most of the time.
How about the classic, Thready McThread-Face?
Thought that was a particularity of british intelect (or lack of thereoft?)
Althoughā¦ that sure does sound like a perfect name!! 
Honestly donāt know, my gut feeling would be that it would undoubtedly affect the tissue supplied by that artery but you can see on the CTPA scan that if the object is stuck in an artery then itās not fully occluding that artery as there is downstream flow and that there doesnāt appear to be any change in radio opacity surrounding the object thus suggesting no localised change in tissue such as ischemia or inflammation.
Maybe weāll never knowā¦
I think the best course of action to find out for sure is vivisection at this point.
The compatibility of the material does not change, but that does not mean it has no affect on tissue. Simply being in the wrong place can mean bad thingsā¦ like imagine a Titan installed in between the ball and socket of your hip joint? Not great. Inside the lung there are alveoli (air sacs), which can be pierced or ruptured or made ineffective if small enough particulate matter enters them or blocks their bronchial passages further up. Itās also possible that inflammation could result from such exposureā¦ not because the body is chemically reacting to the material but because the material is irritating the body due to its position / location.
Speaking of anniversaries, tomorrow the 27th of Feb is the first anniversary of the Dangerous Discord! I was gonna set up some community Jackbox games etc., but who has time for that swing by and say hi and we might try and have a fun voice chat celebration or something 
Why do we tolerate Blackhawk?
Heās normally a āimplants are badā troll to begin with but now heās straight laughing at the lung stuff
Iām not trying to go to pitchforks, but just asking if Iām missing an angle
