Category Archives: Medicine

Much Less Than Half a Chance Part 4

  Screening for the Risk of Deanimation The term “screening” is used in medicine to describe routine examinations or diagnostic procedures of a defined group of individuals to identify diseases or risk factors for same at an early stage. Screening … Continue reading

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Much Less Than Half a Chance Part 3

How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin Removing a Central Objection to Cryonics In case you missed it, what I just said in that slim paragraph at the end of the preceding … Continue reading

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Much Less Than Half a Chance? Part 2

How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) better than ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin Ischemia: The Problem of “Long Down Time”  Almost every cryonicist I’ve ever spoken with envisions his cryopreservation will occur under ideal circumstances. He … Continue reading

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Much Less Than Half a Chance? Part 1

How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) better than ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin It’s easy to concentrate on the biggest and most obvious reason that cryonics hasn’t attracted wider acceptance, principally the fact that it doesn’t … Continue reading

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When a Singularity Bites You in the Ass

 How to avoid autopsy and long ‘down-time’ (ischemia) ~85% of the time! By Mike Darwin   Foreplay It has taken me roughly 30 years to learn that having the technological capability to achieve some marvelous end is only a small … Continue reading

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Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation, Part 3

Section 3: Perfluorchemicals (PFCs)     Figure 3-1: Fluorine and carbon; the two building blocks of the remarkable molecules knows as the perflurochemicals (PFC)s. Physical Chemistry and Synthesis Perfluorchemicals (PFCs) are derived from hydrocarbons by replacing hydrogen atoms with fluorine … Continue reading

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Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation, Part 2

Section 2: Experimental Studies to Determine the Effectiveness of LAPC under Laboratory Conditions Experimental Studies to Determine the Effectiveness of LAPC under Laboratory Conditions  [This section is an edited version of an article authored by Steven B. Harris, Michael G. … Continue reading

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Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation – Part 1

Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 6 Table of Abbreviations, Symbols and Acronyms………………………………………….. 9 Section I: Introducing Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling………………………… 14 Liquid Assisted Pulmonary Cooling in Cardiopulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation, Introduction ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 15 Hypothermia as an Active Therapeutic Agent ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 17 The … Continue reading

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Interventive Gerontology 1.0.02: First, Try to Make it to the Mean: Diet as a life extending tool, Part 1.

By Mike Darwin First, Try to Make it to the Mean For the past two months I’ve been asking people I encounter in public places[1] the question, “How old do you think you’ll live to be?” The answer I get … Continue reading

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Are You Really Sure You Want to Die? A Response and Commentary on the Inevitability of Aging and Death

By Mike Darwin A short while ago the comment appeared on a medical list serve where I post in response to the article “Going, Going, Gone…” which appeared here on Chronosphere about brain aging and the need to develop effective … Continue reading

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