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New O.R. Table: Cooldown-Stage Blanket One of the more interesting features of our new computer controlled perfusion system is the ability to transition from perfusion table to intermediate cooldown system without moving the patient off the table. In other words, after the patient has been cryoprotected, the table is designed to be sealed and for [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/2uvIRbu9SVE

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Response planning A 98 year old member in the St Louis area has had several medical issues over the past year, requiring frequent hospitalization to care for his illnesses.  Any serious medical event can be life-threatening for someone of that age, making it difficult to plan when a standby might be warranted.  To help guard [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/jLd0nVpICyA

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Membership Statistics Alcor had 947 members on its Emergency Responsibility List. Four memberships were approved during the month of September, no memberships were reinstated, one membership was cancelled and no members were cryopreserved. Overall, there was a net gain of three members in September. Applicant Statistics Alcor had 54 applicants for membership. Seven new applicants [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/ODEemiJnXKY

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Part of our ongoing effort to update the look of the Alcor facility includes a sofa, chairs, and table that are stylish without being expensive, a convincing synthetic plant (live plants do not receive adequate lighting in this area), a Shoji screen. Steve Graber created this wall design in Solidworks with the Alcor name laser [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/zQcOpJZKdEE

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In the conference room, the walls and door to the Patient Care Bay have been painted. Max More observed that the walls were becoming crowded with the ever-growing number of photographs of patients and suggested that they should be replaced with an electronic display. Steve Graber ran with that idea and designed and built a [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/bbID2wq2EvQ

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MEMBER COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR A new position called the Member Communications Director (MCD) has opened at Alcor. The Member Communications Director’s job will be to communicate with Alcor’s members by email, by telephone, and in person for multiple purposes, among which are: 1. To find out more about the member, including such information as the member’s [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/0bFRmv8jyvk

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Alcor member A-1088, Dennis Ross, was pronounced legally deceased on Sunday October 30, 2011. A neurocryopreservation, Mr. Ross became Alcor’s 108th patient. Alcor received emergency notification that a member in the St. Petersburg, Florida area had been rushed to the hospital on Friday, October 28th and was diagnosed with a massive intracerebral hemorrhagic stroke due [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/mLt_QrwQVrs

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Alcor is pleased to announce that the 4th Quarter 2011 Cryonics Magazine is now available for viewing, purchasing and downloading. Just because we no longer mail out physical copies of Cryonics magazine (except by special arrangement), you shouldn’t miss on what’s going on at Alcor and in cryonics. The 2011 4th quarter issue of Cryonics [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/oDB9Nyirgbk

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The never-ending quest for cost reductions continues. A review of Alcor’s utility bills and an examination of the roof space made it clear that thousands of dollars per year have been avoidably incurred in the form of unnecessarily high air conditioning bills. We have asked for bids from three companies and will choose one in [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/hbU8cETmSnk

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The next Alcor Board of Directors meeting is currently scheduled for Saturday, December 3, 2011, at 11:00 AM (PDT) at the Alcor facility (7895 East Acoma Drive in Scottsdale, AZ). Members and the public are encouraged to attend this meeting.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/qmbjQ5SjeKo

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New O.R. Table – 80L H20 Cooldown Test with Blanket Based on our findings last month that the mylar cooldown blanket significantly reduced the LN2 usage of our automated perfusion and cooldown table with an empty patient pod, Steve Graber decided to conduct a more rigorous cooldown test utilizing four 20L water bladders in the [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/fUKF9tyF6BE

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Standby and Stabilizations An Alcor member in the New York area was placed on a ventilator following a recent serious medical event. Catherine Baldwin of Suspended Animation (SA) traveled to the area to establish a relationship with the medical facility and mortuary in the event stabilization was needed. Although the member’s health has temporarily improved [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/zCpFxOL6V4Q

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Membership Statistics Alcor had 951 members on its Emergency Responsibility List. Six memberships were approved during the month of October, one membership was reinstated, two memberships were cancelled and one member was cryopreserved. Overall, there was a net gain of four members in October. Applicant Statistics Alcor had 52 applicants for membership. Four new applicants [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/A5gRETma-oI

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Alcor member A-1546, Leonard Emerson, was pronounced on Wednesday November 9, 2011. A neurocryopreservation case, Mr. Emerson became Alcor’s 109th patient. Mr Emerson had been on our watch list for a couple of years. He originally went into the hospital with a pulmonary embolism and it was discovered that he had gastric cancer. He said [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/bFLmKeBfcVw

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The next Alcor Board of Directors meeting will be held on Saturday, December 10, 2011, at 11:00 AM (MST) at the Alcor facility (7895 East Acoma Drive in Scottsdale, AZ). Members and the public are encouraged to attend.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/Z6RohSDOPxk

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This year’s Northern California CryoFeast will be held on Sunday, December 11, 2011, at 1:00 pm at the Halcyon Molecular facility in Redwood City, California. About Halcyon: Halcyon’s mission is to solve death. Currently they are pursuing inexpensive, accurate DNA sequencing as a powerful means of understanding biology, curing disease and extending health.  Their approach to sequencing involves high speed [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/Si_XekmH8bg

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The next Alcor Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for FRIDAY, January 6, 2012, at 11:00 AM (MST) at the Alcor facility (7895 East Acoma Drive in Scottsdale, AZ). Members and the public are encouraged to attend.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/-820XEFoClg

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http://www.longecity...-108th-patient/

Good to see the numbers growing.

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During the month of November the research and development team made a field trip to a local medical CAT scanning service, taking with them two recent neuro patients. Due to circumstances surrounding their death, one patient was cryoprotected and the other was not. Patient safety is Alcor’s main objective, and with that in mind our [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/Nin8YJ6DdFs

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Alcor member A-1546, Leonard Emerson, was pronounced on Wednesday November 9, 2011. A neurocryopreservation case, Mr. Emerson became Alcor’s 109th patient. Mr Emerson had been on our watch list for a couple of years. He originally went into the hospital with a pulmonary embolism and it was discovered that he had gastric cancer. He said [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/kd6gGO594CY

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Alcor member A-1277 was pronounced on Friday, December 9, 2011. A whole body case, A-1277 became Alcor’s 110th patient. A member in the Yonkers, New York area had been in and out of the ICU at a local hospital for more than two months. Her son, also a member, was the liaison between Alcor and [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/lxefYUedmHM

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In November, Steve Graber reported on a table cooldown test to -80C using saline water which demonstrated that the water bags in the cooldown chamber experienced difficulty passing through the ice temperature barrier, resulting in a very long cooldown process. Ultimately the test was stopped before the bags reached any appreciable cooling. Additionally, the research [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/ijSDPkKbJRY

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Membership Statistics Alcor had 958 members on its Emergency Responsibility List. Seven memberships were approved during the month of November, one membership was reinstated, no memberships were cancelled and one member was cryopreserved. Overall, there was a net gain of seven members in November. Applicant Statistics Alcor had 44 applicants for membership. Seven new applicants [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/OqdxgJioEAA

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The Alcor Northern California meeting will be held this Sunday, January 8, 2012, at 4:00 pm. The meeting will take place at the recreation room of Cypress Point Lakes condominiums: 505 Cypress Point Drive, Mountain View, California.  Attendees are asked to bring a favorite dish to share and swimming attire for the sauna and hot tubs/hot [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/gGdEs4HEZtk

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The next Alcor Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for Saturday, February 4, 2012, at 11:00 AM (MST) at the Alcor facility (7895 East Acoma Drive in Scottsdale, AZ). Members and the public are encouraged to attend.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/nlo5JAxnNIg

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The next Alcor Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for Saturday, March 3, 2012, at 11:00 AM (MST) at the Alcor facility (7895 East Acoma Drive in Scottsdale, AZ). Members and the public are encouraged to attend.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/bGMaOi4hRl8

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Case Report for A-1546 Leonard Emerson was born in Raton, New Mexico, a city just south of the Colorado-New Mexico border, on November 26th, 1938.  Known as ‘Bucky’, he served with honor in the US Coast Guard, and then attended the Colorado School of Mines to become a land surveyor. He was a husband, father, [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/b9Aa06TEvCA

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Overseas Neuro Dry Ice Shipping Container  With specific performance goals provided by Max More and Steve Graber have been developing a super-duty dry ice international neuro shipping container. (SDDIINSC) The unit that Steve developed with input from Hugh Hixon and Aaron Drake provides a superior level of insulation and travel protection, and a dry ice [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/a06Eh5ZEl8E

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Membership Statistics Alcor had 957 members on its Emergency Responsibility List. Two memberships were approved during the month of December, one membership was reinstated, three memberships were cancelled and one member was cryopreserved. Overall, there was a net loss of one member in December. Applicant Statistics Alcor had 42 applicants for membership. Two new applicants [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/zMaDI4PbeIw

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Alcor’s lawsuits against Larry Johnson have been ended by his bankruptcy and various concessions.  In 2009 Alcor sued authors Larry Johnson, Scott Baldyga, and publisher Vanguard Press in New York for their book Frozen, which purported to be about Alcor.  The lawsuit was filed to obtain damages for the false and defamatory content of the [...]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/AlcorNews/~4/m5qL6DJ3C-8

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