Few psychological treatments have been as widely heralded as EMDR. Some EMDR proponents have called it a âmiracle cureâ and âparadigm shift,â and ABC's 20/20 proclaimed it an âexciting breakthroughâ in the treatment of anxiety.
hypoxic hypoxia in Medicine. hypoxic hypoxia n. Hypoxia resulting from a defective mechanism of oxygenation in the lungs, as is caused by a low tension of oxygen, by abnormal pulmonary function, or by a right-to-left shunt in the heart. Also called anoxic anoxia.
The causes of both environmental and tissue hypoxia often result in the intermediate state of hypoxemia; thus the causes of any type of hypoxia are also potential causes of hypoxemia. Some of the many causes of hypoxia are the following: 1  Chemical or gas poisoning (for example cyanide, carbon monoxide)  Low or absent concentration of oxygen (for example, high altitudes reached without supplemental oxygen as seen in mountain climbing, and aviation, drowning or fires)