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- From: kqb@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (kevin.q.brown)
- Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
- Subject: Re: Sedatives and Neural Ischemia.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.212747.13213@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 21:27:47 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.171218.4281@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- > Message-Subject: CRYONICS Re: Sedatives
- > Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 12:52:30 EST
- > From: Timothy_Freeman@U.ERGO.CS.CMU.EDU
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- Ken Stone <stone@eng.umd.edu> says:
- >Has anyone investigated the use of major sedatives to slow neural function
- >immediately before clinical death?
-
- For legal reasons, the suspension team can't administer the sedatives
- before legal death. They do administer them after legal death,
- though. Maybe the attending physician could administer them at a
- lower dose before legal death? I have heard of people asking to be
- sedated before death so they wouldn't have to deal with the pain, so
- there is a precedent. Has this been tried? Cryonics magazine has
- discussed other useful pre-death medications such as heavy vitamin E
- supplementation; maybe sedatives should be on this list. (Don't try
- this at home, folks!)
-
- Tim Freeman
-