X-Message-Number: 33467
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 19:37:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Luke Parrish <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #33453 - #33458

What do doctors and other authorities need to know before they
can be trusted to regulate cryonics?

I don't claim any medical expertise, but from my general
readings on the topic as an interested layman I would say a few
of the most important things are:

1. Ischemic time, particularly warm ischemia, needs to be
minimized. In addition to the damage it does directly, ischemia
also causes perfusion impairment which leads to straight
freezing of tissues.

2. Better cryoprotectants need to be used. As better
cryoprotectants become available, they need to be employed. The
most significant advances in cryonics will be in the area of
reduced cryoprotectant toxicity.

3. Cases need to be monitored and recorded to provide feedback,
since the survival of the patient will not be determinable in
the near term and thus cannot be used directly to measure
success or set goals.

Most of all, there needs to be a paradigm which treats cryonics
patients lives as valuable.

Anyone have any other thoughts to contribute?

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