This isn't just a liquid ventilation issue. Alcor has demonstrated great reluctance to use SA equipment generally. I'm told that they air-transported a complete standby-stabilization-transport kit to Florida not so long ago, and I believe they then brought it all back to Scottsdale. Of course any standby team will naturally want to use equipment that it knows rather than equipment that it doesn't know. On the other hand if I were in their position, with virtually no local capability east of Arizona, I would have *found out* what SA had available. During the Alcor training session that was held at SA in, I think, 2006, Tanya Jones seemed quite uninterested in this. Of course this was the same occasion where two Alcor personnel drove the Alcor vehicle all the way from Scottsdale to Florida, to show it off to Florida Alcor members as if the vehicle would satisfy all their needs without any local capability. Fortunately no emergencies occurred in Arizona or California while the vehicle was making its 5000-mile detour for the sake of this PR exercise.
Just to add to the ironies, when Todd Soard decided to end his agreement with Alcor, and he wanted somewhere to park the Alcor equipment and medications that he had been storing for them, he moved everything to SA--with Alcor's knowledge and consent, of course. This equipment included an Alcor ATP and ATP support kit, two more Alcor Pelican containers, and a small plastic laundry basket full of medications. I would guess that all this stuff is still being stored at SA, and I would further guess that Alcor may have forgotten it was there when they airlifted their equipment from Scottsdale.
Comes now "Finance Department" wondering why new rapid cooling equipment developed entirely outside of Alcor has not been used on Alcor patients. I see this as being secondary to some more fundamental questions about policy relating to regional standby work and equipment developed outside of Alcor.
A couple of years ago, I suggested to Steve Van Sickle that SA and Alcor could have annual or biannual technology-sharing meetings, to swap opinions on each others' work in progress, suggest ideas, and avoid unnecessary duplication of effort. Van Sickle rejected my proposal, stating that he didn't believe SA had anything worthwhile to offer. What puzzled me at that time was that he didn't actually *know* what SA had to offer.