Webinar: Emergency department used body bags to keep people alive during heatwave

Cecilia Sorensen  (pictured), who is the director of the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education at Columbia University and is an Emergency  Medicine physician-investigator in the area of climate change and health, told a Columbia University Climate School webinar of a hospital emergency department which had no other way of cooling heat stroke victims outside putting them in a body bag packed with ice. The doctor was one of three panellists on a webinar, hosted by the Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School and the Director of the  Earth Institute, Columbia University, Professor Alex N. Halliday. The webinar was entitled: "Blazing Temperatures, Broken Records: Responding to the Global Heat Crisis".