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> “We will not declare her dead until she is warm and dead.” More cases of kids than adults surviving very low body temperatures, but the saying is true, as lo
by plebianRube 4y ago
> “We will not declare her dead until she is warm and dead.”
More cases of kids than adults surviving very low body temperatures, but the saying is true, as long as you're not warm and dead there is some hope.
- User23 4y agoIt’s absolutely true based on every EMT I’ve spoken to. Which, by the way, I highly recommend if you have the opportunity and the stomach for it. They have some wild stories to tell.
- hammock 4y agoNot for nothing, with children there is often a greater “spirit not to give up.”
- dreamcompiler 4y agoThat's true, but there's also a hypothesis that kids freeze quicker because of their lower body mass, which may make them shut down more uniformly with less damage. Which means thawing them out has a better chance of success.
- dreamcompiler 4y agoIndeed. I'm an EMT and because of cases like this we're taught not to assume a cold or drowned patient is dead until they're warm and dead.