The Minnesota Woman Who Froze Solid Overnight — And The Medical Miracle That Saved Her Life

This principle has saved lives.

There are patients who have been resuscitated from apparent hypothermic death — patients whose hearts had stopped, whose temperature had fallen to levels that were once considered incompatible with survival — who are alive today because the medical team that received them did not accept the apparent death and instead applied the tools of modern hypothermia management.

Not all of these patients survived.

Not all severe hypothermia is survivable, even with the best available care.