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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=11137