X-Message-Number: 4209
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 14:37:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robin Helweg-Larsen <>
Subject: SCI.CRYONICS - Cool surgery

Speaking with a young Japanese research neurologist yesterday (who was 
not familiar with Suda), he said that it was routine for Japanese cardiac 
surgeons to have the patient cooled to 4'C as reducing the risk of brain 
damage during heart surgery, because of the interruption of blood flow to 
the brain.

1) I may have misunderstood some of what he was saying.

2) There may or may not be significant differences in practice between 
Japan and the US.

But possibly Suda's work of 20-30 years ago has had a ripple effect 
throughout medicine in Japan; and perhaps other people, who we are not 
aware of, have built on Suda's work in various directions.

There are other people associated with Suda in the literature: K. Kito 
and C. Adachi were coauthors of both the 1966 Nature and 1974 Brain 
Research papers; maybe Suda did nothing subsequently, but what of his 
associates?

Robin HL


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