I think neutral gas asphyxiation would be. Unfortunately they usually use carbon dioxide instead for pigs. I consider carbon dioxide to be much worse. It’s both acidic and makes you very aware you’re suffocating. At high concentrations unconsciousness is generally very quick though because your blood will literally dump stored oxygen whenever it encounters high levels of CO2. Makes lungs work in reverse like you were in space.
Edit: I use your here because I’m only trained in human physiology but it works essentially the same
That’s pretty much it. Your hemoglobin decouples oxygen for CO2 in areas of high CO2 concentration. This is good when you’re circulating oxygen to muscles that need it. It’s bad when you’re dumping all your oxygen reserve to the atmosphere and instead making your blood more acidic.
There has to be something better than either of those choices D:
I think neutral gas asphyxiation would be. Unfortunately they usually use carbon dioxide instead for pigs. I consider carbon dioxide to be much worse. It’s both acidic and makes you very aware you’re suffocating. At high concentrations unconsciousness is generally very quick though because your blood will literally dump stored oxygen whenever it encounters high levels of CO2. Makes lungs work in reverse like you were in space.
Edit: I use your here because I’m only trained in human physiology but it works essentially the same
Just curious wdym by lungs working in reverse where CO2 is what’s circulated and oxygen is the exhaled “waste”
That’s pretty much it. Your hemoglobin decouples oxygen for CO2 in areas of high CO2 concentration. This is good when you’re circulating oxygen to muscles that need it. It’s bad when you’re dumping all your oxygen reserve to the atmosphere and instead making your blood more acidic.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen%E2%80%93hemoglobin_dissociation_curve#Carbon_dioxide
Coupled with the low partial pressure of oxygen, you’d be going unconscious within seconds. But those seconds are… not pleasant.