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FailFastandDieYoung t1_iucyok7 wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL This palliative care paper determined that a stream of air from a bedside fan relieves dying patients of dyspnoea (breathlessness/ shortness of breath) as equally as supplemental O2. by No_Cauliflower_5489

>I'm thinking that at some point a fan would become ineffective

There's a neat thing in science called the Bernoulli Principle. Here's a simple demonstration with air.

I imagine the volume of airflow you'd get with a fan gives a lot of relief.

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