eli5: Why are electric heated blankets and pads so common but cooled blankets don’t seem to exist?

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It seems like such a simple thing

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Cooling blankets do exist – in healthcare they exist to actively cool patients (for example after cardiac arrest). There just doesn’t seem to be a public demand for cooling blankets so you don’t see them in shops.

edit; I can’t find the name of the cooling blankets we used to use in the ICUs I work in, which used a refrigerated pump to pump cold water into a top and bottom blanket to cool patients. Nowadays we use a device called the Arctic Sun, which uses pads with refrigerated water.

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