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Biostasis Response Inc.

A cryonics standby, stabilization and transport team, based in Calgary.

When a cryonicist is dying, we go to the bedside, cool and stabilize them after legal death, and transport them to their long-term provider. We are the team in the documentary Relax, Open Your Eyes.

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Status
Active
Base
Calgary, Alberta
Team
4 people
Facilities
Downtown CalgaryOperations facility near YYC Airport
Vehicle
Response vehicle
Equipment
Ice bath, stabilization and perfusion equipment

The film

Carrie and Witek Radomski standing between cryogenic dewars in blue light

Relax, Open Your Eyes · David Ehrenreich · 2026

This is the team from the film.

Relax, Open Your Eyes follows Carrie and Witek Radomski as they build cryonics capability in Calgary. If you came here from a card handed out at a screening, you are in the right place.

What we have

Gloved hands checking a laminated checklist inside a response case

A team of four

Trained people in Calgary who take the call and go.

The response vehicle in its garage bay

A response vehicle

Equipped for standby and cold transport.

Response equipment laid out on a white table

Ice bath, stabilization and perfusion equipment

Cooling, circulation, perfusion and transport equipment, with the medications and checklists that go with it.

The facility bay with equipment on carts

Two facilities

Downtown Calgary, and an operations facility near YYC Airport where the equipment is kept and checked.

What we do

Five steps, from body temperature to liquid nitrogen.

The number in the corner follows the patient's temperature as you read.

1 · Standby

37°C

Body temperature

We go to the bedside.

When a member is critically ill, the team deploys and waits with the equipment ready, so stabilization can start the moment it is needed.

2 · Stabilization

20°C

Ice-water bath

We cool the patient and keep blood moving.

Immediately after legal death: cooling in an ice-water bath, cardiopulmonary support, and medications that protect the brain.

3 · Surgery

4°C

Perfusion

We perfuse the body with cold cryoprotectants.

The blood is replaced with a cold cryoprotectant solution that circulates through the body, cooling it rapidly and protecting the tissue from ice damage.

4 · Transport

−79°C

Dry ice

We transport the patient to their provider.

Cold transport to the member's long-term cryopreservation provider. We handle the documentation and coordination.

Carrie and Witek Radomski standing between cryogenic dewars in blue light

5 · Long-term care

−196°C

Liquid nitrogen

The provider takes over.

Long-term storage happens at the member's chosen cryonics organization, in liquid nitrogen.

Getting coverage

  1. Step 1

    Tell us where you are

    Name, email, province. That is the whole form.

  2. Step 2

    We talk

    Your provider, your health, your family. We tell you what we can do today.

  3. Step 3

    We make a plan

    Contacts, paperwork, and the standby plan for your situation.

Questions

What is cryonics?
Cryonics preserves a person at very low temperature after legal death, in case future medicine can restore them. No one can promise that it will work. People choose it because they would rather have the chance than not.
Why does a standby team matter?
The quality of a cryopreservation depends on how quickly cooling and stabilization begin after legal death. Most long-term providers are in the United States. Without a local team, Canadians wait hours or days.
Is Biostasis Response operating today?
Yes. There is a team of four, a response vehicle, ice bath, stabilization and perfusion equipment, a downtown Calgary facility, and an operations facility near YYC Airport. Coverage is arranged case by case. Tell us where you are and we will talk.
Who do you work with?
We coordinate with each member's long-term provider, such as Alcor or the Cryonics Institute, and with local medical staff and funeral directors.
I'm not in Alberta. Can you help?
Tell us your province. Where people are decides where we build capacity next, and we will be honest about what we can do for you today.
I'm a journalist. Who do I talk to?
Choose the press option on the form and someone from the team will reply directly.

Interested in coverage in Canada?

Join the list and tell us your province. We will reach out.

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Temp

37.0°C