Publications by authors named "Suhitharan Thankavelautham"
Background: Historically, brain death legislation was adopted in Asia at a much later stage than it was in the West, with heated public debates surrounding these laws. In this study, we investigated whether the poor acceptance of brain death continues to the present day, focusing on the following: (1) what the Asian public understands brain death to be; (2) how views toward brain death are compared with those of cardiac death; and (3) the extent to which brain death perception contributes to the low rate of deceased organ donation that has been observed amongst Asians.
Methods: Using a door-to-door sampling strategy, we recruited 622 residents in Singapore between September 2016 and July 2017.