You trip and fall and a scalpel ends up between your ribs andbreathing becomes difficult. What has happened? How can it befixed?
After your discharge from the hospital you go out for a nice dinnerto celebrate. Puffer fish is on the menu. Turns out your previouspatient is the chef and is less than motivated to carefully prepareyour dinner. You end up with TTX poisoning. TTX blocks voltagegated sodium channels. How would this affect the firing of actionpotentials? Untreated, TTX poisoning is fatal due to asphyxiation.How? Would your death be quicker or slower at a high altitude?Why?
