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| # 16305 | "Do Not Remove Under Penalty of Law..." [Appraisco] |
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major
Raleigh, NC newspaper):
QUOTE:
PRESUMING DEATH
State Senate Bill 907, "Organ Donations Presumed," would . . . a person's organs for transplantation four hours after he or she is
pronounced dead, if . . . taken from individuals pronounced
dead according to "brain death" criteria, but whose hearts are still (Mon, 21 May 2001, 3 KB) |
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| # 16277 | KRYOS NEWS # 6 [Mgdarwin] |
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are going to die soon.
While this state of affairs is normally hardly an advantage, . . . a promising therapy is
applied to cryopatients after legal death is properly pronounced.
HIGH IMPULSE . . . to widespread clinical application outside the United States in the
form of the Ambu Cardiopump: . . . chest and pull upon
the chest wall after each compression with the suction cup. The . . . cup of the device is pulled up after each
compression the pressure inside the chest . . . to improve
blood flow to both the brain and the heart and to increase survival . . . with 18 to 20 kg of force after each downstroke of CPR.
{Rabl, 1997 #45}.
. . . to
maintain cerebral perfusion for 55 minutes after cardiac arrest.
ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENT
During the course . . . too much is removed circulation to the brain is
compromised; very low blood levels of CO2 cause brain blood vessels to become
constricted. In fact, . . . work -- and work for up to an hour or longer. Kryos will be
using all (Sun, 13 May 2001, 11 KB) |
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| # 16192 | Tissues,Alcor Focus,AIs... [Louis Epstein] |
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Munro
> National Post
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> There can be life after death for human brain cells, say scientists who
> are growing neural . . . adults.
> The cells -- harvested up to 20 hours after death -- were coaxed to grow
> and multiply . . . say the work raises the possibility that brain cells,
> like organs, can be taken from . . . trials, including one in Halifax, where
> fetal brain cells were transplanted into the brains of people with
> Parkinson's. Apart from . . . of
> thousands of people with neurodegenerative disorders.
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> Brain tissue from cadavers is much more abundant. . . . adult ones, which multiplied about 30 times after being extracted.
Which would indicate that foetal . . . isomorphists
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> >> Louis Epstein wrote:
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> >> >Neurosuspension,as I stated,I consider a bad joke...and if (Fri, 4 May 2001, 13 KB) |
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| # 16170 | Kryos News # 3 [Mgdarwin] |
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infection that can result in death in hours (sepsis). Several cryopatients
have died unexpectedly in . . . volunteers at key areas across the United States (and
later in Europe and Australia). At . . . application of vitrification
requires even the smallest brain vessels to be open and unobstructed. This . . . of a cocktail of compounds for
administration AFTER PRONOUNCEMENT OF LEGAL DEATH to inhibit ischemic (Wed, 2 May 2001, 12 KB) |
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| # 16156 | ISCHEMIA: AN INTRODUCTION, Part I [Mgdarwin] |
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resuscitation.
EPIDEMIOLOGY
Each year in the United States there are 540,000 deaths from myocardial
. . . which typically occur within the first 24 hours following admission.
[3]. Especially tragic is that . . . discharge from the hospital) in the United
States as a whole is generally agreed to . . . to total incapacitation in the Persistent
Vegetative State (PVS) [16-18].
The primary cause of . . . because of the justified perception
that irreversible brain damage would have occurred during the prolonged
. . . deterioration of the patient to the agonal
state occur over a time course of minutes to an hour or longer, it is
possible to begin . . . administered prior to the insult,
rather than after a prolonged period of ischemia. The ability (Sun, 29 Apr 2001, 12 KB) |
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| # 16152 | (no subject) [Mgdarwin] |
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and the like) within about 3 weeks.
After that we will begin moving in equipment . . . long term survival of dogs
following 5 hours of bloodless perfusion at a temperature of . . . Some
organizations with no facilities in the state of California may find this
desirable for . . . situation where a patient
experienced legal death after the Department of Health Services Vital
Statistics . . . and transport of the patient out
of state as a cephalon as opposed to a . . . so far).
Will Kryos have access to state-of-the art vitrification technology?
We are . . . still be occurring in
areas of the brain such as the white matter (which is (Sun, 29 Apr 2001, 13 KB) |
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| # 16120 | Actually, It Is Brain Surgery [Jan Coetzee] |
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coetzeejv@geocities.com>
Subject: Actually, It Is Brain Surgery
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 01: . . . charset="iso-8859-1"
Actually, It Is Brain Surgery
By Leslie Gevirtz
BELMONT, Mass. (Reuters) - At the Harvard Brain Bank, they take great care with their . . . 24/7 all year because for a brain to be of value in research it must reach the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center within 24 hours of its donor's death.
Made of . . . as much of the organ as possible. After weighing it on a scale similar to . . . not easy. Researchers from across the United States and Canada must fill out a small (Tue, 24 Apr 2001, 6 KB) |
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| # 15711 | Current Alcor Procedures [Hugh Hixon] |
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15699, which is reproduced below:
The current state of affairs is that Alcor is doing . . . the single organ we consider irreplacable, the
brain.
Ettinger is correct that the Web site . . . mid-'80s we were
routinely recovering dogs after four hours of circulating bloodless
(hematocrit <1) perfusion at (Wed, 21 Feb 2001, 6 KB) |
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| # 15685 | All Mysteries Revealed [davidpascal] |
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temporarily. Some cryonics organizations have used it after a person dies
and is in transit . . . tissue much less entire organs like the
brain. 75% Glycerine is not one of them: . . . will notice that Alcor's
web site states in a description of their procedures: "After the
surgical access is completed, a cold ( . . . this means that some parts of the brain are damaged by the high
concentration, while . . . has said that the concentration of glycerol after
perfusion is 26 percent by weight. He . . . to Mr. Grimes' conundrum is, I believe, stated on the CI
web site somewhere, but . . . toxicity, and you get more
damage to brain cells by having to keep the brain at higher temperatures
for the additional time . . . in passing that the Alcor web site
states in regard to cryoprotective perfusion with 75% . . . Canadian lab has duplicated CI
results, and brain photos that they took are on the . . . a sheep head with 20% 2-methoxyethanol, after a washout out
with Ringer's. The . . . another organization for taking more than 30
hours to transport people from death bed to (Sun, 18 Feb 2001, 40 KB) |
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| # 15653 | A Formal Apology And Some Informal Remarks [davidpascal] |
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protocol', was one single
sentence, quote: "The brain was glycerolized to a lower level (4M) . . . performs (or did perform) tests on
dog brains rather than sheep brains. That is the only point on which
. . . I am of
course very impressed that, after reading my article the day before
yesterday, . . . old words
thrown back at you years after the fact. We grow older and wiser . . . seconds, three
minutes, or often even three hours. There are pressure constraints.
Obviously.
>> CI takes LONGER than any other organization to cool a person after the
perfusion has been done. If David . . . accompanied by fracturing -- ie the patient's brain splits into
separate chunks. CI feels that splitting patients' brains into chunks
might possibly result in unacceptable . . . above is very simple and has been stated before
-- even by Mr. Grimes himself, though (Thu, 15 Feb 2001, 25 KB) |
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