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Selects: How Therapeutic Hypothermia Works

Stuff You Should Know • January 14, 2023

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Physicians noticed centuries ago that people exposed to cold temperatures often have amazing recoveries from serious medical emergencies. Now medicine is learning how to purposefully induce hypothermia in order to buy time to fix otherwise fatal trauma. Find out all about it in this classic episode. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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