X-Message-Number: 11161
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 11:59:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Australia

I'd like to visit the new web site offering information about cryonics in 
Australia; but the URL was not included in the announcement. May we have 
the URL, please?

Also, I'm puzzled that no one in Australia seemed interested in answering 
my questions about basic cryonics capabilities. (Perhaps there was a 
response, which I missed; in which case I apologize.)

I asked:

I assume you have no perfusion capability, and you would flush with
Viaspan or similar, then pack in ice and air-ship to the USA. Does anyone
actually maintain a supply of organ preservation solution? Also, do you 
have a portable ice bath, and the cocktail of meds that are commonly used 
(e.g. by Alcor) immediately after legal death? Do you have a Thumper? 
Does anyone feel confident about intubating the patient?
...

If you did have to respond in Australia, and do a washout there, I'm
wondering if you could really get the patient to Alcor within 24 hours;
and also I'm wondering if anyone in Australia really knows how to do a
femoral cutdown. 

These questions are not intended to be critical. They are relevant to 
problems that are faced by anyone living in a remote area--inside the 
USA, or outside it.

--CP

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