Asphyxia

Asphyxia or asphyxiation is a condition of deficient supply of oxygen to the body that arises from abnormal breathing. An example of asphyxia is choking. Asphyxia causes generalized hypoxia,... Wikipedia

• Specialty:  Critical care medicine
• Frequency:  9.8 million unintentional worldwide (2015)
• Deaths:  35,600 worldwide (2015)
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo