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by dsfyu404ed 2387 days ago
It will but much more slowly. Think of cooling the blood as using the surface area of the arteries and veins as a heat sink to cool the body. Without that blood moving your next best heat sink is the skin so start piling on the ice.
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The body itself is the heat sink. The skin is a radiator. The blood is the liquid in a liquid cooling system (moving heat from the sink to the radiator). To your point, liquid cooling systems become _much_ less effective when the liquid stops pumping.
So I guess ice and cardiac massaging are synergic.