Metro Police to review cryotherapy death

A SPA manager has been found frozen to death inside a liquid nitrogen chamber used for cryotherapy treatments at an unlicensed facility.

The victim, known as Chelsea Patricia Ake-Salvacion, was found dead inside the cryotherapy tank and her body was discover on October 20.

Police said Wednesday that the homicide unit would review the case after officers concluded last week that the death was not suspicious and closed the case.

"It's not a crime". He said he was told she died within moments.

Two state occupational safety agents determined that Ake-Salvacion should not have been using the cryotherapy chamber after-hours for personal use, said Williams, who also serves as spokeswoman for the Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Glatter also noted that the treatment has not been proven to reduce muscle damage after exercise and that people react differently to sub-zero temperatures and need to be monitored. Albert Ake said his niece was frozen solid. They looked into the business operations of Rejuvenice and found that while there is a licensed professional in the spa, the business itself is not registered in the board.

"Questions about public and workplace safety within this relatively new industry have lingered", Division of Industrial Relations Administrator Steve George said.

Investigators intend to examine equipment, interview employees and managers who operate it, and review published information from regulatory agencies and other sources. But her death pointed to possible dangers in an increasingly popular but largely unregulated treatment favored by celebrities and sports stars. The Richard Harris law firm in Las Vegas and Bradley, Drendel and Jeanney law firm in Reno also will investigate exactly what went wrong.

The research data show that cryotherapy in prostate cancer treatment is safe and reliable, Sanchez said, but no such claims can be made about processes not similarly tested in clinical trials. "And now we see the results". It was suspected that Ake-Salvacion had been alone in using the tank.

According to a police report obtained by ABC News, it appears that Ake-Salvacion had set the levels improperly on the machine, which uses extremely low temperatures to treat various ailments, and "froze to death". "Too much nitrogen can overwhelm and cause someone to pass out".

"The facts indicate that the fatality occurred as a result of employee misconduct or non-complaint activity", Williams said in an email.

Attempts to reach spa owners Christian Chateau and Kevin Goujon weren't immediately successful.

Following Ake-Salvacion's death, state regulators ordered both locations shut down indefinitely on Tuesday after owners weren't able to provide proof of worker compensation insurance, business licenses or a company permit to perform cosmetic or other procedures.