X-Message-Number: 2150
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 93 15:38:59 CDT
From: Brian Wowk <>
Subject: CRYONICS Patient Placement

Rich Schroeppel:
 
> Query:  How are the patients supported in the cold room?
> Are there trays, pillows, whatever?  Are the patients
> bearing the load of the coolant/ballast, or the load
> of later patients?
 
        The room is initially stacked up with six layers of the 5 
gallon, cubic foot water jugs suggested by Steve Harris.  (About 1500 
of them in all.)  The top five layers (containing only water ice) are 
removed as necessary to create crevasses in which to stand patients.  
The bottom layer (and layer around the outside wall) is permanent, and 
consists of water/ethanol ice.  We can use different colored handles, 
or some such scheme, to distinguish them.
 
        Patients in their sleeping bags are held inside a net and 
lowered into the room.  (I do not see a need for bulky cassettes.)  
They are stood on their heads on the bottom layer of ballast.  Since a 
hundred years is a long time to stand on your head, we will provide 
pillows (I'm not be being facetious).  Loose space between patients and 
adjacent ballast is stuffed with insulation so that movement is not 
possible.  Patients do not support any weight above them other than a 
6" layer of fiberglass insulation.
 
        Neuropatients (inside their cans) are also stacked on the 
bottom ballast layer.  We will stack them only four or five feet high 
so that a ballast jug can be put on top of the stack.
 
        Vitrified neuropatients (assuming vitrification technology is 
developed) will be stored at the very center of the room, since of all 
patients they will be the most sensistive to warming.
 
                                                --- Brian Wowk

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