Nausea, hallucinations and finally coma: this is what oxygen deprivation does to a human being

“When there is no longer a supply of fresh air in a closed space, people die not so much because the oxygen has been used up, but because the oxygen is expelled by another gas,” says Wouter Van Den Bogaert, specialist for Forensic Medicine at UZ Louvain. He explains what suffocation does to a person.

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