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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
Posted in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Medicine
Tagged .MRI scan, Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Alzheimer's Disease, autopsy, avoiding autopsy, bite back, body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain freezing, computerized tomography, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopreservation, CT scan, dementia, full body scans, head freezing, Holter monitoring, ischemia, magnetic resonance imaging, mike darwin, neurovascular disease, ray kurzweil, singularity, suspended animation, victims of medical imaging, VOMIT
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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
Posted in Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Medicine
Tagged .MRI scan, Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Alzheimer's Disease, autopsy, avoiding autopsy, bite back, body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain freezing, computerized tomography, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopreservation, CT scan, dementia, full body scans, head freezing, Holter monitoring, ischemia, magnetic resonance imaging, mike darwin, neurovascular disease, ray kurzweil, singularity, suspended animation, victims of medical imaging, VOMIT
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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
Posted in Gerontology, Medicine
Tagged Alcor Life Extension Foundation, Alzheimer's Disease, autopsy, avoiding autopsy, bite back, body freezing, brain cryobiology, brain freezing, computerized tomography, cryonic suspension, cryonics, cryopreservation, CT scan. MRI scan, dementia, full body scans, head freezing, ischemia, magnetic resonance imaging, mike darwin, neurovascular disease, ray kurzweil, singularity, suspended animation, victims of medical imaging, VOMIT
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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
Posted in Cryonics Technology (General), Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Medicine, Uncategorized
Tagged acute lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS, cardiac arrest, cardiiopulomnary resuscitation, cerebral resuscitation, cerebral resuscitration, CPR, cryonics, liquid breatrhing, liquid ventilation, lung cooling, mild thereapeutic hypothermia, partial liquid ventilation, perflurocarbons, posty cardiac arrest hypothermia, rapid induction of hypotherrmisa, suspended animation, therapeutic hypothermia, tidal liquid ventilation
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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
Posted in Cryonics Technology (General), Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury, Medicine, Uncategorized
Tagged acute lung injury, acute respiratory distress syndrome, ARDS, cardiac arrest, cardiiopulomnary resuscitation, cerebral resuscitation, CPR, cryonics, liquid breatrhing, liquid ventilation, mild thereapeutic hypothermia, neurosalvage, perflurocarbons, PFCs, posty cardiac arrest hypothermia, reanimation, suspended animation, therapeutic hypothermia
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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
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
Posted in Gerontology, Medicine, Uncategorized
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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