X-Message-Number: 11137
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:48:34 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Australia

I'm interested by the two responses from people in Australia, but puzzled
by the lack of specificity. I'm genuinely curious about the arrangements
there. 

I assume you have no perfusion capability, and you would flush with
Viaspan or similar, then pack in ice and air-ship to the USA. Does anyone
actually maintain a supply of organ preservation solution? Also, do you 
have a portable ice bath, and the cocktail of meds that are commonly used 
(e.g. by Alcor) immediately after legal death? Do you have a Thumper? 
Does anyone feel confident about intubating the patient?

I realize that most deaths are preceded by warning signs, theoretically
enabling the patient to reach help. Indeed, I rely on this fact myself to
some extent, because I do NOT live close to a core group of cryonicists. 
(Some good people at Alcor have very generously offered to travel the 100
miles to my location, in case of emergency, but naturally, ideally, I
would hope to be treated by CryoCare's usual service provider, which is 5
times farther away.)

If you did have to respond in Australia, and do a washout there, I'm
wondering if you could really get the patient to Alcor within 24 hours;
and also I'm wondering if anyone in Australia really knows how to do a
femoral cutdown. 

These questions are not intended to be critical. They are relevant to 
problems that are faced by anyone living in a remote area--inside the 
USA, or outside it.

Lastly: How many cryonicists in Australia at this time? Does anyone know?

--CP

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