X-Message-Number: 5695 Date: 02 Feb 96 04:39:04 EST From: Mike Darwin <> Subject: BPI Transport Training Course This is a first, brief annoucement of an upcoming BPI Transport Training Course which will be held immediately following the WorldCon Science Fiction Convention - LA. The course will be held in Rancho Cucamonga, CA and will have multiple instructors. Important things to consider in deciding if you would like to take this course: *The course will cover the basic technical, medicolegal, and administrative aspects of transport as in the past. These include CPR, cooling, monitoring, data collection, medication administration and physical movement of the patient. *Dates are still flexible. If the majority wishes, a break of a day or so after WorldCon can be arranged to allow potential students to "recover and refocus." *This course will be the first to teach a number of radical new technologies in cryonics transport. Five new drugs will be introduced (many old ones have been eliminated) which have been extensively tested in the animal lab and shown to ameliorate cerebral and systemic ischemic injury. * Two new modalities to facilitate and monitor rapid brain and body core cooling will be introduced and course attendees instructed in their use. * Use of cerebral function monitoring and transcranial IR pulse oximetery will be discussed and familiarization with some of the equipment will be taught. CFM interpretation and use will definitely be taught. * Active Compression-Decompression - High Impulse CPR (ACDC-HICPR) will be taught using the new BPI Thumper system. A noncomputerized field version of this machine will be used for instruction. * The use of Minikits which are relatively inexpensive and can be carrired in the trunk of a car by any trained transport tech will be demonstrated. Minikits consist of a lightweight, collapsible portable ice bath, minimium or "core" drugs, a conventional Thumper, a manual ACDC device and a few other items. This pack allows a single individual to respond with a high degree of effectiveness to an emergency with equipment that can be easily transported in a taxi or a conventional automobile. * The new BPI manual on Standby will be available as part of the course syllabus. Their will be a special emphasis on the use of premedications and an introduction to a Cryonics Buyers Club which offers to supply medications useful for premortem medication not available in the United States. * The cost of the course is $1K US per student. This fee includes housing for the first 5 applicants and a continental breakfast (coffe, tea, rolls, jelly...). Maximum number of registrants if 10, minimum is 5. If more than 8 people register there will be a 15% discount to all attendees. Overflow MAY be available, but cannot be guaranteed. * A 4-5 passenger Disel Rabbit sedan will be available to a liscenced insured driver to facilitate independence in shopping and running local errands. The vehicle is for local city use for student needs only. There is no charge for this. *The Rancho facility can house 4 students with minimum privacy. A camper is on premises (used for remote standbys) which can sleep three people in reasonable comfort with little privacy. The facility has a kitchen (fridge and microwave) a washer/dryer and a shower all of which will be available to students. * Course material will be available at least 2 months in advance and hopefully sooner along with a study guide which should be diligently followed. The scope and volume of material to be covered means that a real effort must be made by the student to absorb theoretical and administrative details from reading prior to attending the course. *Persons qualified and interested in learning simple, open-circuit blood washout techniques should inquire; this may be offered as an add-on after the regular course if there is sufficient interest. *BPI and 21st Century Medicine (21CM)are pursuing an active animal research program involving many models and a variety of species including dogs and cats. Individuals unable or unwilling to work in such an environment should not attend the course. *Much of BPI and 21CM work is contract work. Almost all of the work is proprietary. Course attendees will be required to sign a nondisclosure agreement which applies to *specific* drugs, technques and devices of a proprietary nature which are under development or in patent. The scope of this agreement does not forbid the transmissin of general or specficic impressions or opinions of the course, its instructors, the BPI 21CM facility, the research, etc. Nor does the nondisclosure agreement prohibit the use or application of nonproprietary products or skills on non-BPI patients or to others for any purpose. Most of the instructional material and techniques are not propritary. Anyone interested in the BPI course should contact: Carlotta Pengelley or MikeDarwin BioPreservation 10743 Civic Center Drive Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730 (909)987-3883 No deadline for registration has been established, but the course already has four students registered. It may fill rapidly. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=5695