MD11.1 Asphyxia
International Classification of Diseases for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics, 11th Revision, v2024-01
Asphyxia is a life-threatening condition in which oxygen is prevented from reaching the tissues by obstruction of or damage to any part of the respiratory system. More generally the term indicates all the conditions generating impaired or impeded breathing.
exclusions
- asphyxia due to foreign body in respiratory tract (ND72)
- asphyxia due to carbon monoxide (NE61)
- asphyxia due to traumatic (Chapter 22)
code elsewhere
synonyms
- Asphyxia
- pathological asphyxia
- decreased oxygen supply
- oxygen deficiency
- positional asphyxia
- respiratory asphyxiation
- asphyxial episode
- Hypoxia
- hypoxic
- pathological hypoxaemia
- hypoxaemia
- Anoxia
- anoxic anoxia
- anoxemia
- pathological anoxia
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