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Harvard Criteria (1968)

The four-point diagnostic criteria for a permanently non-functioning brain published by the Harvard Ad Hoc Committee in JAMA: unreceptivity and unresponsivity, no movements or spontaneous breathing, no reflexes, and a flat electroencephalogram. The foundational document of the modern brain-death framework.

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