cooling down the heat stroke victim

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Funny you should say that, as the Israeli military is excatly where I was 
trained (and was an instructor myself, but that never was my area. They have 
specific guys for things that involve what we call "military health")

>From: "Chester Brown" <chet_b at sbcglobal.net>
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>To: "'Trauma &amp; Critical Care mailing list'" <trauma-list at trauma.org>
>Subject: RE: cooling down the heat stroke victim
>Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:45:00 -0800
>
>I found references in the late 80s, out of Israel military I believe that
>used a fine mist spray and fans. This seemed to work very well. Simulated
>the bodies normal sweat and much easier to control the heat loss. Sorry no
>longer have those papers.
>
>Chet
>
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>Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 6:07 AM
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>Subject: cooling down the heat stroke victim
>
>Hello list
>
>Another question
>I was taought that heat stroke victims should be cooled, in the pre 
>hospital
>
>and by the nfirst responder, using room temprature water. The logic was 
>that
>
>cold water or ice will cause vasoconstrtiction, thus limiting radiative and
>eveparotive heat loss by the patient.
>However, I keep on finding refrences stating the other way- that cooling
>should be done with cold water and even ice packs.
>What do you say?
>
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