Jared is an EMR who is called to check on a man who collapsed in the middle of a crowded grocery store. When Jared arrives, the man is unconscious. He speaks to the man, shakes his shoulder, and performs a trapezius squeeze, but there is no response. The patient is not breathing, and his skin is taking on a blue tone. Jared begins emergency life-saving procedures. Later, when he is filling out the PCR for this patient, what term would Jared MOST likely use to describe the condition he found the man in?


respiratory illness


respiratory distress


respiratory failure


respiratory arrest