Actually, if he had put the baby in the fridge while dialing 9/11 (and not closed the door) that might not have been a bad idea...when you come in with heat stroke, you are likely going to be surrounded with ice packs and have chilled saline run into your body.
But it doesn’t sound like that is what this person did. For all we know, he might have put the child in there for an hour.
Point is, chilling is a good thing in this case, but only if you are not delaying medical care.
Running cool water in a sink for a baby would be much better than a refrigerator, and faster unless your fridge is so empty you have room for the baby.
But after four hours in a hot car, I don’t think the child was close to being alive when he pulled her out.
Completely reckless.
Yes, one of the first steps in treating heatstroke is to cool the victim. A refrigerator would not be a bad way to do that in an emergency. With the compressor running, it would be ventilated too.
Not that I’d recommend it as a normal course of events, but it’s not as crazy as it sounds.
“Point is, chilling is a good thing in this case, but only if you are not delaying medical care.”
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A young neighbor became hyperthermic while running the Boston Marathon this year..
She was immediately packed in ice,up to her neck,for 20 minutes and then transported to the hospital.
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