CI Case 120
CI patient #120 is John Bull. John was in the hospital undergoing medical procedures, which he unfortunately was not able to recover from. He was 84 years old when he died on January 19th, 2014.
The patient had contracted with Suspended Animation Inc. (SA) to provide standby, stabilization and transportation. SA personal was on standby at the hospital when the patient died and they were able to quickly apply their procedures for cooling and stabilization. The patient was then transported to a local funeral home so that the necessary transit permits could be obtained and flight arrangements could be made for transport. The first available direct flight to Detroit Metro Airport was scheduled to leave early the following morning and the patient was transported on that flight.
The patient arrived at the CI facility, packed in water ice in the very early afternoon on the 20th of January. Sara Walsh, one of CIs local cooperating funeral directors, was present for the perfusion of the patient. Information was provided from SA, to CI, stating that the patient had severe upper and lower GI bleeding. Therefore, a decision was made to concentrate the perfusion efforts on the patients head and brain.
The perfusion started at about 2:30pm. During the perfusion there were 2 liters of 10% Eg solution used, 6 liters of 30 % Eg solution used and 20 liters of 70% VM1 solutions used. The final refractive index of the effluents exiting the right jugular vein was 1.4205. The final refractive index of the effluents exiting the left jugular vein was 1.4216. Considerable dehydration of the head and face was noted along with a bronzing color of the skin. Rehydration of the face was also noted near the end of the perfusion.
The patient was then placed in the computer controlled cooling chamber to cool to liquid nitrogen temperature. The human vitrification program was selected and the time needed to cool the patient to liquid nitrogen temperature was five and a half. The patient was then placed in a cryostat for long-term cryonic storage.
Comments: The patient was very active in the cryonics movement and he was well known. He made sure his family knew of his cryonics arrangements and they supported him. The patient took the time and effort to make arrangements for standby and made sure that his contracts and funding with CI were always in order. His daughter alerted SA and CI personal when his condition became serious and she kept us up to date of his condition. All of this led to a good suspension.