Suffocation (by strangulation)
Systemic oxygen deficiency due to:
. low oxygen content in ambient air
. mechanical threat to breathing
Excludes: anoxia due to high altitude (T70.2)
asphyxia from:
. carbon monoxide (T58)
. inhalation of food or foreign body (T17.-)
. other gases, fumes and vapours (T59.-)
respiratory distress (syndrome) in:
. adult (J80)
. newborn (P22.-)