• godzillabacter@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Body-bag ice cooling has actually been pretty common practice across emergency medicine for some time. Legit body bags (clean ones obviously) are purpose built to be watertight and hold an adult human, and they’re easily accessible to hospitals. It’s a very effective and affordable method for controlling hyperthermia

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      It makes perfect sense and doesn’t disturb or surprise me, I’m just objecting to the fact that that the only place that phrase is used is in the headline. The people quoted, and even the author, don’t call them that.