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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=4209