Question 1

what is asphyxia? what causes it?

Accepted Answer

Low oxygen: Low oxygen is especially bad for brain cells and heart cells. There are many causes such as deep water black out and drowning, carbon monoxide intoxication, space exploration without protective suit, hanging, sleep apnea and many other ones.

Question 2

what is the result of delivery complication asphyxia?

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Brain damage: This is very serious for the fetus and infant. It can cause growth retardation and even mild mental retardation.

Question 3

what are the most common symptoms of delivery complication - asphyxia?

Accepted Answer

Not subtle: Typically a birth complicated by significant birth asphyxia, which is where the baby is not getting enough blood and oxygen to the brain, is followed by a floppy baby, often with little crying or breathing without help from the doctors and nurses, seizures may also be a complication.  Baby's may need to be on a breathing machine.  Mild birth asphyxia may only have low tone that goes away.

Question 4

what are hypoxia and asphyxia?

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See below: Hypoxia is a lack of oxygen in the bloodstream. Asphyxia, or suffocation, is the consequence of hypoxia.

Question 5

how are apnea and asphyxia differeent?

Accepted Answer

Apnea: This is simply stopping breathing, asphyxia is a low oxygen level - more correctly hypoxemia.  Apnea can cause hypoxemia.

Question 6

how does asphyxia cause congestion?

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Hypoxia: In asphyxia, hypoxia develops which causes inflammation and lack of oxygen even to the heart muscles, the beating gets weaker, and the blood stagnates in the lungs and that is the cause of pulmonary congestion or edema.

Question 7

what do you mean by death caused by asphyxia by ligature?

Accepted Answer

Strangulation: Asphyxia absence of oxygen. Ligature cord etc around neck.

Question 8

please help! what is the difference between asphyxia and hypoxia?

Accepted Answer

Semantics: Hypoxia is low oxygen tension in the blood or in the body. Asphyxia is when one can't breath, as in choking or drowning and unable to breath in air or oxygen.

Question 9

hi doctors, can you tell me what is probable positional asphyxia?

Accepted Answer

Asphyxia: Is the cutting off of airflow from the outside to the lungs as in choking. This can happen when on lying down the tongue falls to the back of the throat or the chest wall falls on the lung and compress it as in obesity. I have heard of that term but there is positional hypoxia meaning oxygenation goes down with position also called platypnea.

Question 10

is it normal to have a feeling of suffocation / asphyxia when riding in bike above 70 kmph?

Accepted Answer

That is: pretty fast.

I do not think this is something to worry about.

But check with your lung doc and ask about CPET to know for sure.

Good luck

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