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During induced hypothermia with ice packs for patients like with mi, how do they not suffer from frost bite due to the direct cold on their skin?
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Not cold enough: and not left in contact long enough. Anyway, frostbite is preferable to the alternative when this therapy is considered necessary!
Answered 12/8/2016
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