The Minnesota Woman Who Froze Solid Overnight — And The Medical Miracle That Saved Her Life
The Treatment
The treatment that Dr.
Sather and his team applied to Jean Hilliard was not sophisticated by modern standards.
The medicine of severe hypothermia had not advanced in 1980 to the point where hospitals in small towns had equipment for active internal rewarming — the methods that would later become standard for the most extreme cases of hypothermia, methods that involve warming the blood directly through specialized circuits.
What they had was heating pads.
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