X-Message-Number: 27913 From: Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 16:14:40 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #27893 - #27896 Jordan Sparks writes: >You realize that the last CI patient was taken off a ventilator only to hang >on for about 6 hours. Very inconvenient for the funeral director who was >standing around for this "urgent" situation. There's no simple solution. In a left-handed way this supports what I wrote. Obviously this patient was removed from the ventillator too soon. I want to discuss things like, How do we know how long to use the ventillator so removal results in prompt deanimation? Can we find studies of vital signs that show when it's time? But actually, six hour's wait followed by prompt action is pretty good. Not perfect, but better than having the patient lie around for hours or days before rescue starts. >But in the second strategy, I take that three hours per day, and use it to >make more money and build up my immediate response services for the moment >of my death. This might involve the time and expense of moving closer to a >cryonics facility, saving up large amounts of money and purchasing services >in advance from SA and CI and Alcor and anyone else I can think of. It >involves the purchase and building of equipment, networking with other >people, marketing, studying, experimenting, etc. I like the idea of moving close to the facility near the end, and especially recommend it to people in Europe who will otherwise wait for days for their authorities to finish the paperwork, and to be flown to the US. I think it would behove us to find apartments for rent in advance, and have standby equipment nearby, so people can rent them and have the gear brought in on a day's notice. Brain cell viability drops off fast. Six hours in some experiments but two days in all. Much better to start a minute after the heart stops! Alan Mole Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=27913