Anoxia and hypoxia can be caused by any number of disease states of the blood, lungs, heart and circulation including heart attack, severe asthma, or emphysema.
1. too little oxygen in the inhaled air 2. inadequate ventilation (=the chest muscles and diaphragm moving air in and out of the lungs)3. ventilation/perfusion (=blood flow) mismatch4. Shunting...
Hypoxia is a medical condition in which oxygen is no longer sufficiently reaching your cells. It can be caused in a number of ways:- If your airway is closed, such as when you're choking on food or...
Anoxia, the severest form of hypoxia, is caused by extreme deprivation of oxygen. The causes of anoxia are: Severe anemia. Low partial pressure of oxygen in blood (Hypoxemia). Premature birth Lung...
Hypoxia is where there is low oxygen concentrations in the tissures so therefore this must be due to the lack of oxygen in the blood due to poor/lack of gas exchange caused by the copd