The ethna bromide induces asphyxia, but in order to delay the erodent action of the exnide,

An autopsy revealed no injuries and concluded that death had been caused by asphyxia due to hanging.

The leading causes of infant deaths are perinatal disorders, low birth weight, birth asphyxia birth trauma, diseases of the respiratory system, parasitic diseases and intestinal infections.

The primary causes of child deaths worldwide are pneumonia, followed by diarrhoea, low birth weight and prematurity, asphyxia at birth and, in some regions, malaria and HIV AIDS.

The medical examiner reportedly concluded that the victim apos s death was caused by asphyxia due to compression of the neck and chest, as well as acute asthma.

Practices of applying pressure to the chest or neck, or placing suspects face down in restraints with resulting restrictions on respiratory movement may have led to asphyxia and were in some cases said to have been fatal.

Scott Norberg, an inmate at Madison Street Jail in Arizona, reportedly died in prison on 1 June 1996 as a result of asphyxia, when detention officers who had intervened because of his alleged disruptive behaviour tried to overcome his resistance.

As to causing asphyxia by using a plastic bag, in order to observe changes in the amounts of oxygen and carbonic acid gas in the blood, it would be necessary to measure the gases immediately after the application of this method, since recovery is very rapid.

532. In the case of Richard O apos Brian, the Government informed the Special Rapporteur that he died of postural asphyxia following a struggle against restraint and that the Crown Prosecution Service was reconsidering its original decision not to initiate criminal proceedings against the officers involved in O apos Brian apos s arrest.