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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 
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> suspension teams, but I imagine that appropriate preliminaries for suspension
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> 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


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