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From att!watson.ibm.com!metzger Thu Jul 18 11:23:10 0400 1991
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 91 11:23:10 -0400
From:  (Perry E. Metzger)
To: 
Subject: Re: Jerry Leaf Suspended

   From: 
   Date: Wed, 17 Jul 91 20:09 EDT

   Jerry Leaf, President of CryoVita and chief thoracic surgeon for
   Alcor suspensions, suffered a full cardiac arrest at home late Wed.
   July 10.  He was taken to a nearby hospital and pronounced legally
   dead shortly after midnight by the attending physician.  Even
   though his was a coroner's case, he was released to Alcor by 3:10
   AM with the assistance of Christopher Ashworth and Judge Munoz.
   The suspension was carried out by the Alcor team plus Dr. Eugene
   Breznock, who performed the thoracic surgery.  His suspension was
   done as well as other suspensions done by Alcor under those
   circumstances.  The September issue of Cryonics magazine will give
   the details.

I'm curious (and not YET an Alcor member or subscriber to Cryonics):
what was the reason for the three hour delay? Was it legal, technical,
a matter of the apropriate people not being informed in time, or what?

A second question is, how much worse is the damage to the brain after
three hours than after, say, 15 minutes?

Perry Metzger

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