Sentence examples for compression asphyxia from inspiring English sources

Compression asphyxia.

One doctor said the crush, which caused death by compression asphyxia as people could not expand their chests to breathe in, was "like a constrictor snake".

The Times reported on Wednesday that the Kern County coroner's office said Soward died of neck compression asphyxia, and that his death was a homicide.

A spokeswoman for the medical examiner, H. Wayne Carver II, said Ms. Le had been strangled — she died from "traumatic asphyxia" caused by "neck compression".

Connecticut's chief medical examiner ruled the death an accident, citing the cause as asphyxia due to neck compression.

An autopsy has determined that Mr. Irizarry died of asphyxia from neck and chest compression as he was restrained while experiencing "acute cocaine intoxication," a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office said.

In a letter to Mrs Williams, he said he could not disagree that Kevin had lost consciousness very quickly, but it was "by no means certain that even in a severe case of traumatic asphyxia, death necessarily ensues three or four minutes after the compression begins".

Traumatic asphyxia or Perte's syndrome results from a severe crush injury causing sudden compression of the thorax.

Capasso et al [ 190] compared oxygen delivery on intermittent positive pressure with nasal cannulae versus facial mask in primary resuscitation of the newborn with moderate asphyxia, concluding that while resuscitation with nasal cannulae required fewer intubations and chest compressions, it had comparable survival rates and Apgar scores to normal controls.

As asphyxia is the most common cause for cardiac arrest in infants, not only continuous chest compression but also rapid and successful airway management is the most important during infant resuscitation [ 17, 18].

Others have infections or suffered birth asphyxia.