Help... possible causes of respiratory arrest?

Question

can someone please...

describe the possible causes of respiratory arrest

thanks

Answer 1

Causes by quite a few things.

Anything that blocks the trachea (wind pipe) whether by inhaling a foreign body, vomit, water.  Drowning, heart failure (cardiac arrest), a growth in the trachea.

Head injury affecting the respiratory centre in the brain, neuromuscular disease where the chest muscles are not working properly, drug overdose, poliomyelitis  can have this effect.  Anything that stops air getting to the lungs or impedes the working of chest muscles.

  

Answer 2

smoking. fatty foods , obesity