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Protocol to confirm brain death
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- Kerala has become the first state in the country to adopt a standard operating procedure (SOP) for determining brain death cases with an aim to make organ transplants more transparent in the state.
- As per the SOP guidelines, three stages of procedures have to be followed-- precautions to be taken before tests to determine brain death, analysis of reflective actions of brain and Apnea Test (an important component of brain death assessment).
- In this procedure a team of four doctors including at least one government doctor is authorized to declare a patient brain dead.
- The norms are applicable to both government and private run hospitals in the state.
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