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Thank you for your clarity!

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Thank you that makes sense!!! I understand it better now

We just had an exam in class and one of our questions was the following: a patient with a wrist fracture has a short arm cast with impaired venous return distal to the cast, which of the following would be indicative of the patients condition? A.) bounding pulse pressure B.) C.) D.) pain unrelieved by opioids and i cant remember the other two options but the answer was D...I chose A because if blood flow isn't returning to the heart wouldn't the pressure in the veins distal to the fracture become higher? I asked my teacher the rationale behind the question, and she said that if the patient is in pain that is unrelieved it is because of the lack of oxygen getting to the arm from impaired circulation. Which makes sense, but wouldn't a bounding pulse distal to the cast also be a sign? I'm just trying to better understand the rationale on why A wouldn't be an option!