Asphyxia is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body. In the absence of remedial action it will very rapidly lead to unconsciousness and death. Asphyxia is the same as suffocation. Anoxia means the pathological state in which tissues do not get (enough of) oxygen. General Name, Symbol, Number oxygen, O, 8 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 16, 2, p Appearance colorless Atomic mass 15. ... Unconsciousness is the absence of consciousness. ... Death is either the cessation of life in a living organism or the state of the organism after that event. ...

Asphyxia in humans is a medical emergency. A medical emergency is an injury or illness that poses an immediate threat to a persons health or life which requires help from a doctor or hospital. ...

Causes of asphyxia can include:

• Physical obstruction of the passage of air to or from the lungs:
  • Crushing or constriction of the chest or abdomen
  • Choking
  • Drowning
  • Strangulation, or external constriction of the neck or throat, e.g. by a rope (as in hanging), hands, or a constrictor snake
  • Reduction of the airways due to anaphylaxis or asthma
  • Inhalation of vomit
  • Positional asphyxia
  • The extremely dangerous and frequently lethal practice of erotic asphyxiation, also called "breath control play"
• Breathing in low oxygen environments, for example:
  • the filling of cryogenic vessels with liquified, oxygen-free gases such as nitrogen in an enclosed space
  • workers climbing down into a fermentation vat in a brewery, not realising the vessel has filled with carbon dioxide gas
  • workers climbing down into the holds of ships that contain heavier than air, oxygen-free gases
  • the misuse or failure of diving rebreathers where the breathing gas contains insufficient oxygen
  • breathing a hypoxic breathing gas mixture while diving in shallow water where the partial pressure of oxygen is too low to support consciousness. A hypoxic "bottom gas" is designed only to be breathed at depth.

• Contact with a pulmonary agent or cyanogenic compound
• A seizure which stops breathing activity
• Sleep apnea

Problems during childbirth can lead to the newborn experiencing asphyxia. This article is in need of attention. ... The human abdomen (from the Latin word meaning belly) is the part of the body between the pelvis and the thorax. ... In medical use, choking is the blocking of a persons trachea by a foreign object, vomitus, blood or other fluids. ... The neck is the part of the body on many limbed vertebrates that distinguishes the head from the torso or trunk. ... Anatomy In anatomy, the throat is the part of the neck anterior to the vertebral column. ... Rope is also the title of a movie by Alfred Hitchcock Coils of rope used for long-line fishing A rope is a length of fibers, twisted or braided together to improve strength, for pulling and connecting. ... Hanging to Music. ... Superfamilies and Families Henophidia Aniliidae Anomochilidae Boidae Bolyeriidae Cylindrophiidae Loxocemidae Pythonidae Tropidophiidae Uropeltidae Xenopeltidae Typhlopoidea Anomalepididae Leptotyphlopidae Typhlopidae Xenophidia Acrochordidae Atractaspididae Colubridae Elapidae Hydrophiidae Viperidae Snakes are cold blooded legless reptiles closely related to lizards, which share the order Squamata. ... Anaphylaxis is a severe and rapid systemic allergic reaction to a trigger substance, called an allergen. ... Vomiting (or emesis) is the forceful expulsion of the contents of ones stomach through the mouth. ... Positional asphyxia, also known as postural asphyxia, is a form of asphyxia which occurs when someones position prevents them from breathing adequately. ... Erotic asphyxiation, asphyxiophilia, breath control play or scarfing is the extremely dangerous sexual practice of partial asphyxiation by strangulation or suffocation of one person by another during sexual intercourse. ... A Dewar flask is a glass vessel designed to provide very good thermal insulation. ... General Name, Symbol, Number nitrogen, N, 7 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 15, 2, p Appearance colorless Atomic mass 14. ... A brewery is a facility that produces beer. ... Carbon dioxide is an atmospheric gas composed of one carbon and two oxygen atoms. ... Italian barque Amerigo Vespucci in New York harbor, 1976. ... Diving has several meanings:- Plunging deliberately, often acrobatically, into water. ... Inspiration closed circuit diving rebreather Description A rebreather is a type of breathing equipment that provides a breathing gas containing oxygen and recycles exhaled gas. ... Air is the most common and only natural breathing gas. ... Air is the most common and only natural breathing gas. ... Approximately, the partial pressure of a gas in atmospheres in a mixture or solution is what would be the pressure of that gas if all other components of the mixture or solution suddenly vanished without its temperature changing. ... Categories: Chemical weapons | Stub ... Categories: Stub | Chemical weapons ... This article is about the medical condition. ... Sleep apnea (alternatively sleep apnoea) is a sleep disorder in which breathing is interrupted during sleep. ... Newborn with suctioning and umbilical cord Childbirth (also called labour, birth, or parturition) is the culmination of pregnancy, the emergence of a child from its mothers uterus. ...

Prolonged asphyxia can result in brain damage even when it does not cause death. Brain damage or brain injury is the destruction or degeneration of brain cells. ...

See also

• hypoxia (medical)
• oxygen depletion (aquatic ecology)
• fan death

Recently, asphyxia by carbon monoxide has become a popular suicide method, especially in Japan where suicide pacts involving several individuals are more common. Hypoxia is a pathological condition in which the body as a whole (generalized hypoxia) or region of the body (tissue hypoxia) is deprived of adequate oxygen supply. ... Decline of oxygen saturation to anoxia, measured during the night in Kiel Fjord, Germany. ... Fan death is an urban legend confined primarily to South Korea. ... Carbon monoxide, chemical formula CO, is a colourless, odourless, flammable and highly toxic gas. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of intentionally ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed, or attempted the act. ...

BBC News: 9 Die in Japan 'Suicide Pacts'

As referred to in the article above, a small grill or hibachi is filled with coals, and allowed to completely burn in a small, air-tight room or vehicle. The carbon monoxide concentration quickly reaches a lethal level, and can also pose a risk for would-be rescuers if caution is not observed.

In the past, before catalytic converters began being installed on most petroleum-burning vehicles, carbon monoxide asphyxiation was done by running a tube from the exhaust port of a vehicle through the window. When the window and tube were properly sealed, this too would cause a relatively quick death. This method is becoming less common due to design improvements to automobile engines which prevent them from emitting enough carbon monoxide to be dangerous in an enclosure. Nodding donkey pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario, 2001 Petroleum (from Latin petra – rock and oleum – oil), crude oil, sometimes colloquially called black gold, is a thick, dark brown or greenish flammable liquid, which exists in the upper strata of some areas of the Earths crust. ... Carbon monoxide, chemical formula CO, is a colourless, odourless, flammable and highly toxic gas. ...