X-Message-Number: 20524 Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:55:32 -0700 From: Jerry Lemler <> Subject: New Patient On the evening of Wednesday, November 27th, the Alcor Life Extension Foundation received its 54th cryosuspension patient, the record setting 7th of this calendar year. Alcor Standby Rescue Team Members, led by Director of Suspension Services, Charles Platt, were present in the patient's residence, less than 15 minutes from the central facility, at the time of pronouncement, by the home hospice nurse in attendance. Fortuitously, this Alcor member and his wife had recently relocated to Scottsdale for the express purpose of obtaining a more optimal cryosuspension experience. This move (from south Florida), was prompted by the ministrations of our good friend, Bill Faloon. The value of such vital logistical foresight should not be overestimated. The patient experienced cardiac arrest at 8:20 PM Arizona time, and was transported to the Alcor facility, where the surgical team and operating room staff were already in place, waiting to receive him. Cryoprotective perfusion with vitrification solution was completed without incident in the early hours of Thursday, November 28. Although the patient's right carotid artery had been obliterated by a very large tumor, perfusion through the remaining vessels was exceptionally rapid and thorough. On this occasion, the Alcor team was joined by the foundation's former Cryotransport Manager, Tanya Jones. We are most grateful to Tanya (now a veteran of 20 such procedures), for offering us her expertise in this most successful rescue effort. As an addendum, Alcor management, ever cognizant of the member relocation issue, is in the preliminary stages of formulating plans (White Paper), for the possible acquisition of a permanent local facility to accommodate our terminal patients and their immediate family (s.o., etc.) members. Such a facility could offer not only basic lodging requirements, but could, as well, incorporate premortem and postmortem death and dying and grief management counseling with anciliary social services-- all at a projected zero cost to our members. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20524