X-Message-Number: 937 From: Subject: more grist for msg 0014 Date: Sun, 28 Jun 92 12:06:39 PDT [ This header text from message #0014.6 should be of interest to everyone, so it is being sent directly to the entire cryonics mailing list. - KQB ] Before responding, I want to thank Saul for his help arranging airline transportation for transport team members for the latest suspension and another one pending. Saul also transported our contract surgeon from and back to the airport. I also want to thank Paul Wakfer for spending six hours at a critical juncture weighing out perfusate components while Hugh Hixon was completely swamped with getting a second remote standby kit together and shipped. It seems that no matter how high the level of animosity, we can still bury the hatchet (temporarily) and put our patients' need first. I suppose I owe an explanation as to the delay in responding to these posts. It is now Sunday morning, June 28. I am partly caught up on sleep after 10 hours in the sack, interrupted by a call at a little after 5 am that the nearby 7.4 earthquake had not damaged anything at the Riverside facility. Last Tuesday evening a call came through that either Arel or I was needed in Colorado. Tanya was already there on standby for a patient. The patient had taken a turn for the worse, and was expected to deanimate within hours. Arel was out of touch, (doing research in the Stanford library) so I dropped our daughter at Naomi Reynolds' place and joined Mike Darwin and Carlos Mondragon as they changed planes in San Francisco. (Naomi would have gone, but she had a final exam the next day.) The patient did undergo legal death by the middle of the next afternoon (Wed.). The transport went marginally ok (as measured by the level of glycerol we were able to get into him later) but we sure had a lot of problems. More detail will be provided later. While we were on standby, another member got into serious trouble on the east coast. Arel left on Wednesday for standby and is not expected back until the middle of the week at soonest. She normally edits my more serious postings. Please forgive spelling/grammatical errors I miss. The transport team and the patient from Colorado went to Riverside, where the cryoprotective perfusion was completed late Thursday. Mike and Tanya left and flew out before the perfusion was done to the east coast for the other standby, and two days later Carlos recruited Steve Bridge to join them to relieve some of the local people who had to go back to work. I stayed over Friday in Riverside for cleanup and some limited autopsy work on the patient to see what had gone wrong in the transport, and flew home Saturday morning. I went straight to my "day job" so they could some critical product checked out for shipment Monday. It has been a zoo. Keith Henson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=937