CI Case 183
Cryonics Institute Case Report for Patient Number 183
CI patient #183 was a 77 year old male from India. The patient was a CI member at the time of his death.
The patient died on November 11, 2019. The family of the patient prepared well in advance by purchasing perfusion equipment. They also obtained vitrification solutions from CI and contracted with ICE to do the perfusion. A report by ICE is being prepared. Once the perfusion was done, the patient was packed in dry ice. The patient was maintained in dry ice until all documents for transport were obtained and the transport could be arranged. The patient was then transported to CI, in dry ice.
The patient arrived at the CI facility on December 14th, 2019, approximately one month after death. There was between 400 and 500 lbs of dry ice in with the patient upon his arrival. The patient was then placed into the computer controlled cooling chamber to cool to liquid nitrogen temperature and the human vitrication program was selected. The patient was then placed in a cryostat for long-term cryonic storage.