Myth: You can send someone into shock if you cool them off too fast. This is false. Having ice dumped on you is not comfortable in normal conditions but most people barely feel it if they are dangerously overheated.
The Paramedics I take my MRT class from always advise against this.
That's what was taught in the past, and is still sometimes taught today in EMS education. But it is wrong.
Maybe but that's the way I'm taught and I'm expected to respond to incidents according to my training and scope of practice.
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