The Minnesota Woman Who Froze Solid Overnight — And The Medical Miracle That Saved Her Life
The skin froze.
The muscles and subcutaneous fat in the arms and legs and face froze.
All of this is consistent with severe frostbite, which causes the same effects — rigidity, hardness, color change, and loss of sensation — in the affected tissues.
But the core — the heart, the lungs, the liver, the kidneys, the brain — appears to have been protected by the same physiological mechanism that is deliberately induced in cardiac surgery: the cold slowed everything down sufficiently that the cells could survive in a reduced-function state without sustaining permanent damage.
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