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The hypoxic drive

The textbook reason not to over-oxygenate a CO₂ retainer. Measurement says the real mechanisms are lost hypoxic vasoconstriction and the Haldane effect — the advice survived, the explanation did not.

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The textbook reason not to over-oxygenate a CO₂ retainer. Measurement says the real mechanisms are lost hypoxic vasoconstriction and the Haldane effect — the advice survived, the explanation did not.

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