Headline seems a little sensational in that the article never says they’re using body bags (the bags we put dead bodies into) it says watertight blue immersion bags have become standard equipment. So they’re bags, and they’re made for a body, but it’s not clear that they’re the same kind of bag.
Body-bag ice cooling has actually been pretty common practice across emergency medicine for some time. Legit body bags (clean ones obviously) are purpose built to be watertight and hold an adult human, and they’re easily accessible to hospitals. It’s a very effective and affordable method for controlling hyperthermia
It makes perfect sense and doesn’t disturb or surprise me, I’m just objecting to the fact that that the only place that phrase is used is in the headline. The people quoted, and even the author, don’t call them that.
Headline seems a little sensational in that the article never says they’re using body bags (the bags we put dead bodies into) it says watertight blue immersion bags have become standard equipment. So they’re bags, and they’re made for a body, but it’s not clear that they’re the same kind of bag.
Body-bag ice cooling has actually been pretty common practice across emergency medicine for some time. Legit body bags (clean ones obviously) are purpose built to be watertight and hold an adult human, and they’re easily accessible to hospitals. It’s a very effective and affordable method for controlling hyperthermia
It makes perfect sense and doesn’t disturb or surprise me, I’m just objecting to the fact that that the only place that phrase is used is in the headline. The people quoted, and even the author, don’t call them that.