The Minnesota Woman Who Froze Solid Overnight — And The Medical Miracle That Saved Her Life
This principle is now considered standard of care for hypothermia victims.
It is taught in wilderness first responder courses, in emergency medicine residency programs, in paramedic training.
It is the reason that patients found in apparent cardiac arrest from hypothermia receive aggressive resuscitation and rewarming rather than immediate declaration of death.
The principle predates Jean Hilliard’s case — it had been expressed in various forms in the medical literature before 1980, based on earlier cases of hypothermia survival.
But her case, dramatic and well-documented and resulting in essentially complete recovery from a profoundly extreme clinical presentation, became one of the most frequently cited examples of the principle in action.
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