NF05

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Asphyxiation

Index terms

  • Asphyxiation
  • asphyxia (ligature)
  • positional asphyxiation
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  • suffocating
  • suffocation NOS
  • traumatic asphyxia
  • Asphyxia by bedclothes
  • Asphyxiation by hanging
  • asphyxia by hanging
  • suffocation due to hanging
  • Asphyxiation or suffocation by strangulation
  • Suffocation by strangulation
  • asphyxia by strangulation
  • Suffocation by cave-in
  • Systemic oxygen deficiency due to low oxygen content in ambient air
  • Systemic oxygen deficiency due to mechanical threat to breathing
  • Asphyxiation or suffocation by constriction
  • asphyxia due to constriction
  • suffocation by constriction
  • Asphyxia due to gravitational changes
  • Asphyxia from pressure
  • mechanical asphyxia
  • mechanical asphyxiation
  • suffocation by pressure
  • Postnatal mechanical asphyxia
  • Asphyxia by suspension

Excludes

  • CB00 – Adult acute respiratory distress syndrome
  • KB23 – Respiratory distress of newborn
  • ND72 – asphyxia from inhalation of food or foreign body
  • NE61 – asphyxia from carbon monoxide

Exclusions from above levels

  • FB80.7 – Malunion of fracture
  • FB80.8 – Nonunion of fracture
  • FB80.A – Stress fracture, not elsewhere classified
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  • FB80.B – Pathological fracture
  • http://id.who.int/icd/entity/624443803 – Birth injury
  • JB0A – Certain specified obstetric trauma

Sibling codes

  • NF00 – Effects of radiation, not elsewhere classified
  • NF01 – Effects of heat
  • NF02 – Hypothermia
  • NF03 – Other effects of reduced temperature
  • NF04 – Effects of air pressure or water pressure
  • NF06 – Effects of strenuous physical exercise
  • NF07 – Effects of other deprivation
  • NF08 – Effects of certain specified external causes
  • NF09 – Adverse effects, not elsewhere classified
  • NF0A – Certain early complications of trauma, not elsewhere classified
  • NF0Y – Other specified effects of external causes
  • NF0Z – Unspecified effects of external causes

Foundation entity

Asphyxiation – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/607132843

Allowed postcoordination axes

Part of: 22: Injury, poisoning or certain other consequences of external causes