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Cases with Cardiopulmonary Support

It is a general practice in the medical world to terminate the care of terminal patients and to declare legal death when the heart stops beating. Accordingly, in the first few minutes after cardiac arrest and in cases where brain death is considered to have occurred according to conventional criteria, a window of opportunity is reached to maintain blood circulation and maintain the viability of brain cells in patients who are legally considered dead. Cases in which life support procedures are applied immediately after cardiac arrest to preserve the viability of brain cells are considered ideal situations for cryopreservation. Cryopreservation protocols should ideally be initiated within a few minutes of the patient's cardiac arrest. Otherwise, more burden is placed on potential future technology to reverse the injury and restore the brain to a healthy state. The major effect of delay is the reduced diffusion of freeze damage-reducing chemicals (cryoprotectants) as circulation in the circulatory system becomes more difficult.