If a victim suffers a breathing emergency and is
deprived of adequate oxygen, hypoxia will result.
Hypoxia is a condition in which insufficient oxygen
reaches the cells. Hypoxia may result from an
obstructed airway, shock, inadequate breathing,
drowning, strangulation, choking, suffocation,
cardiac arrest, head trauma, carbon monoxide
poisoning or anaphylactic shock.
Signs and symptoms of hypoxia can include an
increased heart rate, cyanosis (a condition that
develops when tissues do not get eno