Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation


 * Not to be confused with CryoCare Foundation.

Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation or just Cryo-Care was an American company that manufactured cryocapsules, and cryopreserved people for cosmetic reasons, though the cryonics issue did naturally arise. It was founded by Ed Hope in Phoenix, Arizona in 1965.

Cryo-Care did not use cryoprotectants or perfusion with their patients but only did straight freezes to liquid nitrogen temperature. Cryo-Care cryopreserved four people in the 1960s: "Sarah Gilbert", Louis Nisco, Eva Schulman, and Donald Kester Sr. Eventually they all thawed out. For a few years, Cryo-Care also took care of James Bedford who remains in the Alcor Life Extension Foundation today.