{"id":66606,"date":"2025-10-05T13:13:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T07:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=66606"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T10:14:40","slug":"compressive-asphyxia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/compressive-asphyxia\/","title":{"rendered":"Compressive Asphyxia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Compressive Asphyxia Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The death toll in the stampede at Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam\u2019s (TVK) rally at Velusamypuram has climbed to 41, with doctors attributing most fatalities to compressive asphyxia due to crowd crush.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Asphyxia?<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asphyxia or asphyxiation occurs when the <\/span><b>body does not get enough oxygen.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Respiration <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is the<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">process of<\/span><b> air moving in and out of your lungs.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Humans take in oxygen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is <\/span><b>circulated to all of the cells<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> throughout the body via the blood, and <\/span><b>carbon dioxide is then removed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">through the same system.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>When asphyxia occur<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s, and the<\/span><b> body does not get <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the amount of<\/span><b> oxygen it needs<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it can <\/span><b>cause a person to become unconscious or even die.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>About Compressive Asphyxia<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This type of physical asphyxia <\/span><b>happens when an outside force keeps you from expanding your chest to breathe.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your <\/span><b>lungs are \u201ccrushed\u201d and can\u2019t take in air. <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">This <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">can happen from a crowd of people pressing against your body <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or a person\u2019s weight on your chest.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/tamil-nadu\/2025\/Sep\/30\/tvk-rally-stampede-most-victims-died-of-compressive-asphyxia-says-tn-medical-director\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NIE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compressive asphyxia occurs when external pressure prevents chest expansion, stopping breathing, often from crowds or weight on the chest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":66905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3073,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-66606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-compressive-asphyxia","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}