CI Case 243
Cryonics Institute Case Report for Patient Number 243
CI patient #243 was an 85 year old make from Maryland. The patient was a CI member at the time of his death.
The patient was pronounced legally dead in a hospital facility at approximately 12:12pm on June 7th,, 2023. A prearranged funeral service provider provided the initial cooling with water ice and transfer. No heparin was administered. The funeral service provider transferred the patient into two vinyl disaster pouches and added 200 lbs more of water ice. Upon obtaining a Burial Transit Permit the patient was driven to the CI facility and arrived at approximately 12:35 AM on June 8th, 2023 approximately 12.5 hours after legal 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 1:30am and it was completed at 2:43am. During the perfusion there were 5 liters of 10% Eg solution and 5 liters of 30% Eg solution used, and 48 liters of 70% VM1 solution used. The final refractive index of the effluents exiting the right jugular vein was 1.4237. The final refractive index of the effluents exiting the left jugular vein was 1.4201. The average perfusion pressure was held at 117.66mm and metal cannulas were used. Flow rate averaged at .81 liters per minute. The nasal temperature was -2.3c at the end of the perfusion.
There were minimal 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. 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.
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.