In article <90eepm01rq9@drn.newsguy.com>, lmt_watch@my-deja.com wrote: > Learn about Keith Henson's bizarre interest in frozen heads
You could do this with a collection of URLs. If anyone is interested, here is a sample from a 1992 article of mine. There are other articles if you want me to post pointers to them. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/tsf/Public-Mail/cryonics/archive/601
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/tsf/Public-Mail/cryonics/archive/602
The Transport of Patient A-1312
by H. Keith Henson [The following article is cleaned up from a collection of personal notes from my viewpoint on the suspension. The patient's name and his wife's are pseudonyms. He happens to be a friend of three of the stabilization team members. The "warts" mentioned here are in keeping with the long standing Alcor tradition of telling it like it happened so we can learn from each suspension.] The first indication that our patient was in imminent trouble came less than two weeks before his suspension. "Dennis" had metastasized gastric cancer which had spread into the liver before it was discovered about 5 months ago. (mondo snip) About 4 pm Dennis began to experience very irregular bradycardia and a falling respiratory rate. Still, he lasted about an hour longer. He was pronounced at 5:03 pm. In addition to the transport team, we had several helpers available to move Dennis from the bed to the PIB. Dennis was a large guy (215 lb.), and while he was wasted in the upper body, he was *really* edematous in the legs, with a massive abdomen from his cancer-invaded liver. Moving a person of that size can be nearly impossible. We did it by the sheet- pickup method, and lots of helpers; I seem to remember 4 on each side. (A week later, at a memorial at our patient's house an old friend of mine repeated the aphorism that a friend is someone you call to help you move, and that a *real* friend is someone you call to help move a body. We had lots of real friends that day.) snip The HLR was on Dennis in about 2.2 min from the time he was pronounced. snip The nurse who pronounced stayed and helped as scrub nurse. It is impossible to say enough good things about her. She was a welcome and valuable asset to Mike. (I was green as grass as a surgical assistant). When we got the ECMO circuit hooked up, the patient's temperature was still rather high. He went on bypass after an hour and 45 minutes with an arterial temperature of 23.2 deg. C. snip When the patient was cooled to about 12 degrees, Mike started dumping treated Viaspan into the bag reservoir on the MALSS cart, and opened the venous return line to begin the Viaspan flush. snip . . .so I scrubbed and dried the PIB on the MALSS cart, and got the cooling setup together and down to temperature. Later I had to get into scrubs and help Mike, Hugh, and Arel with the cephalic isolation. snip Dennis perfused beautifully to a 4.5 molar glycerol concentration with no brain swelling; in fact, the bur hole and x-rays indicated a little shrinkage. Such a good perfusion was the result of a number of factors . . . . Keith Henson