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|80-60%||Moderate Hypoxia||Decreasing brain function||Vision can be altered, including tunnel vision. Coordination is impaired in things like handwriting will deteriorate. Below 80% the skin may become blue (cyanosis). Mental functioning is impaired, sometimes creating euphoria or tranquility, including indifference to everything including pain. At this level some people become fixated on whatever they were doing when the hypoxia began, which can be dangerous. Memory and speech can also be impaired. There may be older treat visual hallucinations, feelings of depersonalization and even out of body experiences.
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|60-40% ||Severe hypoxia||[[Muscle ]] paralysis||Apparent unconsciousness.
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|<40%||Extreme hypoxia||Unconsciousness and eventually death||