X-Message-Number: 32726 From: Darryl Metz <> Subject: Perfusion during cardiac arrest ? Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:50:07 -0700 --_7662365d-090a-4748-9412-ef21646381bf_ I read some posts from earlier this month in which it was said that teams exist in hospitals that can attach patients in cardiac arrest to portable perfusion machines. It was suggested that these teams could be used in cryonics. That left me wondering why such teams aren't used routinely in hospitals. Why on TV shows do we see doctors doing futile CPR and then calling "time of death" rather than attaching patients to perfusion machines while their hearts are stopped to buy more time? Darryl _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1 --_7662365d-090a-4748-9412-ef21646381bf_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32726