en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_B%C3%A5genholm
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Her body temperature at this point was 13.7 °C (56.7 °F)
13.7 °C was not her temperature on hospital arrival. Peer-reviewed sources say her rectal temperature on arrival was 14.4 °C, and it fell to 13.7 °C later during afterdrop/rewarming.
Full reasoning
This sentence assigns the 13.7 °C reading to the moment Anna Bågenholm arrived at the hospital, but later medical reviews of the case distinguish between her arrival temperature and the later nadir.
A 2025 peer-reviewed case report states that in Bågenholm’s case, “the blood temperature during afterdrop reached 13.7 °C; however, the rectal temperature on hospital arrival was 14.4 °C.” A 2024 historical review of the case likewise says that on admission her rectal temperature was 14.4 °C, and that it fell to 13.7 °C 40 minutes later after extracorporeal circulation had begun.
So the article is mixing up two different measurements: 14.4 °C on arrival, versus 13.7 °C later as her temperature continued to drop. The broader claim that she survived a nadir of 13.7 °C is supported, but placing that value specifically at the time of hospital arrival is incorrect.
2 sources
- Survival from cardiac arrest at a core temperature of 14.0 °C on hospital arrival caused by cold exposure hypothermia treated with extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a case report
To date, the lowest core body temperature reported in an adult survivor of accidental hypothermia was described in a case of immersion hypothermia, in which the blood temperature during afterdrop reached 13.7 °C; however, the rectal temperature on hospital arrival was 14.4 °C.
- A century of exercise physiology: concepts that ignited the study of human thermoregulation. Part 3: Heat and cold tolerance during exercise
... bypass was commenced on admission ..., at which point her rectal temperature was 14.4 °C. Full blood flow was restored 40 min later, but her rectal temperature had then fallen to 13.7 °C ...