First technical and scientific procedural manual for the cryopreservation of humans as the time of medico-legal death for possible future resuscitation if medical science becomes sufficiently advanced.
Author(s): Frederick R. Chamberlain and Linda L. Chamberlain
Edition: First
Publisher: Manrise Corporation
Year: 1972
Language: English
Pages: 179
City: La Canada
Tags: cryonics, cryopreservation, delayed medical rescue, medical time travel, perfusion, cryobiology
Introduction, Words of Caution, Manual Organization, Reader Comments and Recommendations, Learning SSH Procedures, Acquiring Equipment, Training: Acquiring Skills, Nonprofit Organizations, Emergency Communication System, Selecting Appropriate Courses of Action, Situation One: Society Representative is not at the scene and doctor is not at the scene, Situation 2: Society Representative is not at the scene and doctor is at the scene, Situation 3: Society Representative is at the scene and doctor is not at the scene, Situation 4: Society Representative is at the scene and doctor is at the scene, Getting Facts and Giving Information (no doctor present), General Coordination Procedures, Going to the Scene, Signs of Clinical Death, The Decision Not to Attempt Resuscitation, Alternative Actions in the Event of a Decision Not to Attempt Resuscitation, Legal Problems, Resuscitation, Resuscitation Measures, Resuscitation Equipment, First Aid, Medical Tests: Donor Alive or Resuscitation Being Attempted, Administration of Heparin, Special Circumstances, Legal Death and Immediate Consequences, Pronouncement of Death, Certification of Death, Avoidance of Autopsy, Maintaining Cardiopulmonary Functions after Legal Death, External Cooling, External Cooling Procedures, External Cooling and Apparatus for Phase I, Transportation of the Legally Dead Donor, Medical Tests and Procedures Following Legal Death, Fluid Samples, Tissue Samples, Radiographic Tests, Mechanical Tests, Maintaining Proper Records, Monitor Body Temperature, Log-Keeping Procedures, Perfusion Records, Compilation of Overall Records of SSH Induction Records, Standard Procedures for Induction of SSH, Standard Procedures: Phase I, division of Activities Within the Phase I Team, Cannulation, Preparation for Cannulation, cannulation Techniques and Procedures, Cannulation Instruments, Preparatory Steps Prior to Phase I Perfusion, Equipment for Phase I Perfusion, Procedures for Phase I Perfusion, Concurrent Phase I Procedures, Post Phase I Procedures, Trans-Phase I Donor Movement: Operations, Trans-Phase I Donor Movement: Administrative, Standard Procedures: Phase II, Division of Activities Within the Phase II Team, Preparatory Steps Prior to Phase II Perfusion, Preparation of Perfusate for Phase II, Equipment for Phase II Perfusion, Procedures for Phase II Perfusion, Post Phase II Procedures, Appendix A