CI Case 238
Cryonics Institute Case Report for Patient Number 238
CI patient #238 was a 78 year old male from Georgia. The patient was a CI member at the time of his death.
The patient collapsed unexpectedly at home on 12/24/2022 at about 2pm. The patient was taken to a local hospital by paramedics where he was declared dead. The medical examiner did not to an autopsy. The patient was then taken to a funeral home and placed in refrigeration. The funeral director said that because Monday was a holiday, the day after Christmas, it would not be possible to obtain a transit permit until Tuesday. We then requested that the patient be frozen in dry ice. Because the patient died on Christmas Eve, which was also a Saturday, the funeral director was not able to find a source of dry ice until Monday. Once the details for transit were in place, the patient was transported to Detroit Metro Airport, where he was picked up and brought to the facility. The patient arrived at our facility on December 28th, 2022 at about 8pm.
The patient was then transferred to the computer controlled cooling chamber to cool to liquid nitrogen temperature. The human dry ice program was selected and the time needed to cool the patient to liquid nitrogen temperature was 25 hours. The patient was then placed in a cryostat for long-term cryonic storage.