Cold Meat?

Just a little food for thought to all the EMS folk out there.

I've been reading a little regarding the potential benefits of clinically induced hypothermia in sudden cardiac arrest patients. The studies that I have found were primarily performed on lab animals, however I did stubble on to a study performed in Europe that was in hospital with actual humans. Silly Europeans, the world's lab rats. Their study had certain prereq's for the patient to be used of course. Based on downtime, witnessed or not and a few other factors. The benefits sound quite fascinating for cardiac arrest but also some spinal injuries and possible CVA incidents.

Basically I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this procedure, in the field or in house.

In the frigid north we might just start working grandpa on the icy sidewalk out front. Suppose we'd need inline IV heaters then, so never mind.