Veined Cut

WHY, is it deadly when your jugular vein is cut?

I know it is deadly when it is cut, but WHY…what makes it different than any other vein in the body?

“Stephanie”, veins are not arteries, as you have stated. What “Stephanie” doesn’t understand is that veins don’t carry blood to the brain or to any organs at all except for the heart. They return blood to the heart. And “Odile”, this person is asking about the jugular veins, not the carotids and not arteries at all.

The jugular veins are in the neck and drain blood from the head, brain, face and neck and carry it back to the heart. The jugulars, both internal and external, are major veins and because they are major veins, they are large. A lot of blood passes through these veins, therefore, due to the large volumes of blood that flow though the jugular veins, damage to the jugulars can quickly cause significant blood loss which can lead to hypovolemic shock and then death. The jugular veins are no different than any other large vein in the body. In fact, if either the superior or inferior vena cavae were severed, you’d bleed out in a few minutes because these veins are even larger than the jugulars. The large veins are different from the smaller veins in that they carry larger volumes of blood. The larger the vein, the more blood.

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