X-Message-Number: 657 Subject: CRYONICS - ACS and Alcor From: (Edgar W. Swank) Date: Mon, 17 Feb 92 16:34:27 PST Based on a phone call from Art Quaife on 02/15/92, I would like to make some corrections to my commentary about the circumstances of the suspension described in Msg #652. The nursing home was within, not "at some distance from" the Bay Area. The location was not familiar to ACS/TT people, hence the need for maps. The patient _had_ paid Emergency Responsibility fees, but other paperwork, particularly paperwork to insure suspension funding, had not been started. TT no longer offers Emergency Standby as a formal service, with a fixed price list. It will consider requests for this service on a case by case basis. Apparently, based on Msg 653 from Steven Harris, Alcor and ACS/TT are similar in that there is no commitment for standby as a formal service but is often available informally on a volunteer or ad hoc basis. Your technical comment, Steven, is over my head. I understood the dehydration comment came from an M.D. on the scene. I will ask Art to confer with Paul Segall for a comment. By the way, Steven, it's "Mr." Swank, or just "Edgar". My highest education is a B.S. in Physics. \tt\permannt\services.ws2 12/18/90 DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES OFFERED Trans Time offers the full range of cryonic suspension services to persons, called Donors, who have made the necessary legal and financial arrangements to be placed in cryonic suspension upon legal death. Emergency Responsibility * Maintain on file copies of the Donor's legal and funding documents for suspension. * Notify the Donor of inadequacies in his legal and financial arrangements. * When these arrangements are in order, accept responsibility to place the Donor in cryonic suspension upon his legal death. * Maintain the Life Line 24 hour emergency phone notification service, in order to respond rapidly to the Donor's death. * Assist in making arrangements for transport of the Donor from the place of death to our facilities in California. * Maintain at our facilities equipment and trained personnel in a continuous state of readi- ness to initiate suspension procedures such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, cooling of the Donor's body, and injection of appropriate pharmacological agents. * Maintain necessary equipment, chemicals, supplies, and personnel ready to conduct all Phases of the suspension of the Donor. Phases I and II * Introduce cryoprotective chemicals into the Donor's body while lowering his tempera- ture to that of solid carbon dioxide, by a method designed to minimize the damage to the physical structures upon which the Donor's biological and psychological functioning depended. Encapsulation * Place the Donor within an insulated container, and place the Donor and container within a cryogenic storage capsule, cooled by liquid nitrogen, by procedures designed to mini- mize thermal and mechanical stresses upon the Donor. Trans Time supplies and main- tains ownership of such capsules. Long Term Storage * Maintain the Donor continuously at liquid nitrogen temperatures. -- (Edgar W. Swank) SPECTROX SYSTEMS +1.408.252.1005 Silicon Valley, Ca Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=657