cooling down the heat stroke victim

[Chester Brown]

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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