{"id":36837,"date":"2026-05-06T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=36837"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:41:05","slug":"article70943438-ece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=36837","title":{"rendered":"Fear of litigation stifles brainstem death certification in Kerala, finds study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unless hospitals incorporate BSD certification in ICUs as an institutional policy\u2014not for enabling organ donation, but to prevent unnecessary waste of valuable ICU resources, inflated hospital bills and needless trauma for families\u2014deceased organ donation rates are unlikely to go up<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/fear-of-litigation-stifles-brainstem-death-certification-in-kerala-finds-study\/article70943438.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><br \/>\nwww.thehindu.com<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;\">\n<strong>Medical Disclaimer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis content is shared for informational and educational purposes only.<br \/>\nIt does not constitute medical, legal, or policy advice.<br \/>\nHealthcare decisions should always be made in consultation with qualified professionals.\n<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unless hospitals incorporate BSD certification in ICUs as an institutional policy\u2014not for enabling organ donation, but to prevent unnecessary waste of valuable ICU resources, inflated hospital bills and needless trauma for families\u2014deceased organ donation rates are unlikely to go up Source: www.thehindu.com Medical Disclaimer: This content is shared for informational and educational purposes only. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[26038,14359,2128,13373,10665,13067,26036,26037,2037],"class_list":["post-36837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle","tag-brainstem","tag-certification","tag-death","tag-fear","tag-finds","tag-kerala","tag-litigation","tag-stifles","tag-study"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36839,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36837\/revisions\/36839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}