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- From: kqb@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (kevin.q.brown)
- Subject: Re: Identity Loss From Pre-Death Shock?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:34:00 GMT
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- > From: hkhenson@cup.portal.com
- > Message-Subject: CRYONICS Neurological damage
- > Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 19:46:42 PST
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- In msg #1474 Steve Harris gives us good reasons to believe (in the
- case of a well attended cryonicist dying under expected conditions)
- that relatively minor neurological damage occurs before clinical death.
- His arguments are certainly well supported by the literature about
- shock; while other parts of the body (kidneys and liver) might suffer
- considerable damage from prolonged low blood flow, the brain seems to
- be rather well protected from similar damage--at least down to the
- point where breathing stops. As a practical matter, I will quit
- worrying about pre clinical death brain damage.
-
- Unfortunately, only two of the last six patients had prompt and
- very effective restoration of well oxygenated blood flow to the brain
- following clinical death, so *post* clinical death neurological damage
- is still a serious concern. I can go into the details of these cases,
- and look up more cases, if anyone is interested.
-
- Keith Henson
-