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The patient with the crushed forearm cannot get pain relief with opioids. The injury is swollen, cool, and cyanotic, with weak distal pulses. The nurse assesses that this is a(n):
1.   compartment syndrome.
2.   overwhelming infection.
3.   fat embolus.
4.   osteomyelitis.


This is for my medical nursing class
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Thank you for this, it helped me understand it perfectly.
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