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In 1999, Anna Bagelholm was skiing in Sweden when she accidentally fell into a frozen river.
This sentence gets both her name and the location wrong: her surname is Bågenholm, and the accident happened near Narvik in Norway, not in Sweden.
Full reasoning
Credible accounts of the case identify her as Anna Bågenholm and place the accident in Narvik, Norway.
The University Hospital of North Norway (UNN), where she was treated and later worked, says: "Under en skitur i Byfjellet i Narvik ... Anna Bågenholm blir fanget under isen" — i.e. during a ski trip in Narvik, Anna Bågenholm became trapped under the ice. The Guardian likewise describes the incident as happening in the Kjølen mountains in northern Norway and names her as Anna Bågenholm.
So the post is incorrect on two factual points in this sentence: it misspells her surname as Bagelholm, and it says she was skiing in Sweden even though the accident occurred in Norway.
2 sources
- Iskald banebrytende verdensrekord - Pingvinavisa
Historien er dramatisk: Under en skitur i Byfjellet i Narvik havner alpinisten i ei råk. Den da 29 år gamle Anna Bågenholm blir fanget under isen i en bratt foss.
- Between life and death - the power of therapeutic hypothermia | The Guardian
Deep in the heart of northern Norway lies the Kjølen mountain range ... the miraculous survival story of Anna Bågenholm ... Bågenholm, a trainee doctor, was skiing off-piste with two of her colleagues when she lost control.
so doctors declared her clinically dead.
She was clinically dead in the medical sense, but the team did not declare her dead on arrival; they explicitly decided not to declare death until she had been rewarmed.
Full reasoning
This wording is too strong and is contradicted by the treating team's own account. Dr. Mads Gilbert, who led the resuscitation effort, said: "the decision was made, we will not declare her dead until she is warm." CNN's report on the case also states that she later worked at the same hospital where doctors "refused to accept she was dead."
Anna Bågenholm herself later explained the distinction: "Not in the manner of law, I wasn't dead ... if you ask a doctor, they had to say I was not dead, because I wasn't brain dead." In other words, she had no detectable circulation/breathing and was clinically dead in the physiologic sense, but the doctors did not formally declare her dead at that point because profound hypothermia can mimic death and patients are rewarmed first.
So the claim that doctors declared her clinically dead is inaccurate; they treated her as a potentially salvageable hypothermia patient and specifically withheld a death declaration pending rewarming.
2 sources
- CNN.com - Transcripts (Anderson Cooper 360, October 15, 2009, segment 01)
DR. MADS GILBERT: ... No signs of life whatsoever. And the decision was made, we will not declare her dead until she is warm.
- CNN.com - Transcripts (Anderson Cooper 360, October 15, 2009, segment 02)
Anna Bagenholm is a doctor, a radiologist at the very same hospital where doctors refused to accept she was dead... BAGENHOLM: Not in the manner of law, I wasn't dead ... if you ask a doctor, they had to say I was not dead, because I wasn't brain dead.