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On the subject of overheating the blood: why not cool it instead?

The human body has a vestigial survival reaction to being doused in
freezing cold water.  The metabolism slows to a few percentage points of
normal, blood withdraws to the interior of the body, and the maintained
body temp drops to around 80 degrees.  (I'm reciting this all from a pop
science article I read years ago.)  This was discovered when people in
car accidents were warmed up from this state with no discernible brain damage.
Has there been any work on controlling this phenomenon?

Lance Norskog