Phoenix turns to ice-filled body bags to treat heatstroke as US south-west bakes
Phoenix turns to ice-filled body bags to treat heatstroke as US south-west bakes
Technique known as cold-water immersion adopted by Phoenix hospitals after county saw 645 heat-related deaths last year
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.
Coming soon to a fossil fuel-ridden city near you.
I feel like it's actually less developed areas that are getting hit the hardest by this kind of thing. The fossil-fuel ridden cities can just burn more to crank the AC up. It's a perverse irony and digging the hole deeper, but if this was fundamentally the kind of problem where the people doing it faced the most direct consequences, this situation would never have devolved this far.
You haven't seen some Chinese cities and their smog lately then.
If that doesn't work, just finish zipping it up. Easy-peezy
Grandma: "I'm not dead yet!"
“She says she’s not dead”
“She will be soon she’s very ill”
If you don't have an ice bath handy but you have cold packs, you can place cold packs under a persons arms in the pits, between their legs near the crotch and on their neck.
Does this work because it’s cooling down arteries and in turn taking cooler blood around the body? Not sure how human heat sinks work :)
If you stick your forearms in a tub of cool water you can cool down quick without any risk of whatever the problem is called when you cool someone down too quick.
Shock? It feels like shock is the right answer here.
Edit: to to too.
Damn I miss ninja edits
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/
Overall, we rate The Guardian Left-Center biased based on story selection that moderately favors the left and Mixed for factual reporting due to numerous failed fact checks over the last five years.
Detailed Report
Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER Factual Reporting: MIXED Country: United Kingdom Press Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Newspaper Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY
Tbf, doesn't that make it something like "above average" for a modern large news organization?
Also, if you are testing a bot or something then THAT IS AWESOME!!! But label it properly please!?:-)
If not, is there anything more to be said about the failed fact checks - like just could not be verified, vs. were verified to be actually fully wrong, mostly appearing in opinion pieces or can't really tell, things like that? Just saying "MIXED" and "MEDIUM CREDIBILITY" leaves me hungry for more... and I don't really know how to interpret all this.
They just need to believe that climate change isn't real harder, that'll help them.
Guy in the picture doesn't look too good
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