CI Case 241
Cryonics Institute Case Report for Patient Number 241
CI patient #241 was a 94 year old male from Connecticut. The patient was a CI member at the time of his death.
The patient died in a hospice facility at about 10:30am on April 2nd, 2023. The hospice staff covered the patient in bags of ice to start the cooling process and a local cooperating funeral home was notified. No heparin was administered. The funeral director picked up the patient from the hospice facility, added more ice and obtained a transit permit. The funeral director then drove the patient directly to the CI facility. The patient arrived at the CI facility at 12:12am on 4/2/2023, approximately 14 hours after death.
Upon the patient’s arrival at the CI facility, he was transferred to the operating table in the perfusion room and prepared for perfusion. A full body perfusion was performed. The perfusion was started at 12:48am and it was completed at 2:10am. During the perfusion there were 7 liters of 10% Eg solution and 10 liters of 30% Eg solution used, and 35 liters of 70% VM1 solution used. The final refractive index of the effluents exiting the right jugular vein was 1.4207. The final refractive index of the effluents exiting the left jugular vein was 1.4205. The average perfusion pressure was held at 117mm and metal cannulas were used. Flow rate started at .78 liters per minute and was reduced to 0.22 liters per minute by the end of the perfusion. The nasal temperature was -8.6c at the end of the perfusion.
There were a lot blood clots noted during the perfusion. Significant dehydration of the head and face was noted along with a bronzing of the skin. There was some distention of the abdomen, so the perfusion to the body was stopped at 1:43am, after dehydration and bronzing of the skin was visible through the trunk and on all extremities, with the exception of no visual changes in the ankles and feet. There was slight edema noted in the lips at the end of the perfusion.
The patient was then transferred to 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 days and 11 hours. The patient was then placed in a cryostat for long-term cryonic storage.