A nurse is caring for four clients who might be brain dead.Which client would best meet the criteria to allow assessment of brain death?

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In order to determine brain death,clients must meet four criteria: 1)coma from a known cause,2)normal or near-normal core temperature,3)normal systolic blood pressure,and 4)at least one neurologic examination.The client who was in the car crash meets two of these criteria.The clients with the lower temperature and lower blood pressure have only one of these criteria.There is no data to support assessment of brain death in the client found by the hunter.

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