X-Message-Number: 2250 From: Subject: CRYONICS Australian Status Date: Sat, 15 May 93 02:06:05 PDT >From Robert Cardwell: To Peter Merel: In message #2209 you wrote, concerning the situation in Australia: [discussion of Australian law deleted] > Of course there are no local cryonics organisations or ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > suspension teams, but I imagine that appropriate preliminaries for suspension ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > could be arranged with some considerable amount of trouble. [etc.] You are not quite right there. The Cryonics Association of Australia, of which I recently became president, has an Alcor transport kit and its members hold regular training sessions. At present we are prepared to do cardiopulmonary support, medication and external (ice bath) cool-down. I am visiting Alcor central right now and when I get back to Australia we will be equipped and able to perform the additional step of an open circuit blood washout. That step would buy time (24-48 hours) to get a patient to Alcor central for cryo- protective perfusion and cooldown to solid state. Further improvements in capability are "in the pipeline". I hope that you find this information of personal and practical interest, Pete, whoever you are. After June 9, I can be contacted at my usual e-mail address in Australia at Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=2250