I’ve heard of a U-Haul being used. It’s not as crazy as it sounds—you need something that can be obtained at a moment’s notice to get you to the airport or straight to the facility, and U-Hauls are extremely easy to get and inexpensive. For air travel I think there’s a kind of metal casket used for shipping dead bodies, and what they do is fill it with ice and fiberglass insulation.
By the time they are being shipped, the patient should already be near zero degrees C. Either blood washout or immersion in an ice bath with CPS would be used to cool them. Washout is a more complex surgical procedure so it is harder to train for and there is more that can go wrong in an emergency situation. Ice bath cooling is simpler, but the cooling rate (even using a thumper and a squid) is worse, since the heat has to get through the skin.
I’ve heard of a U-Haul being used. It’s not as crazy as it sounds—you need something that can be obtained at a moment’s notice to get you to the airport or straight to the facility, and U-Hauls are extremely easy to get and inexpensive. For air travel I think there’s a kind of metal casket used for shipping dead bodies, and what they do is fill it with ice and fiberglass insulation.
By the time they are being shipped, the patient should already be near zero degrees C. Either blood washout or immersion in an ice bath with CPS would be used to cool them. Washout is a more complex surgical procedure so it is harder to train for and there is more that can go wrong in an emergency situation. Ice bath cooling is simpler, but the cooling rate (even using a thumper and a squid) is worse, since the heat has to get through the skin.