CI-174

CI-174 (legal death on February 16, 2019) is the first whole-body patient perfused by Cryonics Germany. He was a 96-year-old retired engineer who lived in a hospice care in Hannover, Germany.

His legal death occurred on February 16, 2019, a Saturday evening, in the course of an aspiration pneumonia. He was quickly put on cold storage at about 6 °C, and the hospital staff informed the Cryonics Germany emergency team. In the morning of Sunday, February 17, three members of Cryonics Germany started perfusion via the common carotid artery approximately 11 hours after the legal death. He was placed in dry ice and was transported to the United States. There he was cryopreserved by the Cryonics Institute, becoming CI's 174th patient.