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Also known as choking to death on one's own vomit, suffocation, asphyxiation
Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body which arises from abnormal breathing. Asphyxia causes generalized hypoxia, which affects all the tissues and organs, some more rapidly than others. There are many circumstances that can induce asphyxia, all of which are characterized by the inability of a person to acquire sufficient oxygen through breathing for an extended period of time. Asphyxia can cause coma or death. In 2015, about 9.8 million cases of unintentional suffocation occurred which resulted in 35,600 deaths. The word asphyxia is from Ancient Gree
Asphyxia is a life-threatening condition in which the body doesn't get enough oxygen due to abnormal breathing, and it can lead to coma or death if the oxygen deprivation continues long enough. It can result from many different circumstances that prevent a person from breathing adequately, and in 2015 alone, unintentional suffocation cases caused over 35,000 deaths worldwide.
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- Medical condition (new).name
- Asphyxia
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- Asphyxiation
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- The neck contains several vulnerable targets for compression, including the carotid arteries and the trachea.
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- Critical care medicine
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- 9.8 million unintentional worldwide (2015)
- Medical condition (new).deaths
- 35,600 worldwide (2015)
- Medical condition (new).complications
- Coma, muteness
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Research
23,598 papers- Forensic Research Progress on Postural Asphyxia.ReviewFa yi xue za zhi · 2022Pan HB, Li MJ, Hu SH et al.DOI: 10.12116/j.issn.1004-5619.2020.400813
- Post Mortem Molecular Biomarkers of Asphyxia: A Literature Review.ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2024Sacco MA, Aquila IDOI: 10.3390/ijms252111607
- Predicting asphyxia in term fetus.Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology : the journal of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology · 2023Esercan A, Demir İDOI: 10.1080/01443615.2023.2199064
- Traumatic asphyxia.Pediatric emergency care · 2014Montes-Tapia F, Barreto-Arroyo I, Cura-Esquivel I et al.DOI: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000000067
- From "apparent death" to "birth asphyxia": a history of blame.ReviewPediatric research · 2018Obladen MDOI: 10.1038/pr.2017.238
- Homicidal asphyxia.The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology · 2000DiMaio VJDOI: 10.1097/00000433-200003000-00001
- Hearing Impairment in Infants with Asphyxia.The international tinnitus journal · 2022Aziza M, Bs YDOI: 10.5935/0946-5448.20220002
- A case of complex asphyxia sheds light on problems in the classification of asphyxias.ReviewLegal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2024D'Elia F, Simonit F, Desinan LDOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2023.102368
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- Asphyxia
- has cause
- hanging to death
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C50465
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Article · 日本語
窒息（ちっそく）とは、主に呼吸が阻害されることによって血液中のガス交換ができず血中酸素濃度が低下、二酸化炭素濃度が上昇し内臓や身体に重要な組織が機能障害を起こした状態をいう。死亡する場合は窒息死（ちっそくし）といい、鼻や口の閉鎖、異物による気道の閉鎖、溺水、生き埋め、空気中の酸素欠乏、胸郭にかかる強い圧力（外傷性窒息）などがある。そのほかにも薬物などによる呼吸筋の麻痺、痙攣などの際にも起こる。
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