The nurse is monitoring a patient with a casted left tibial fracture and a contusion of the thigh.The patient reports increasing pain in the left foot that has not been relieved by morphine injections.What should the nurse do?

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The early symptom of acute compartment syndrome is the patient's report of severe,increasing pain that is not relieved with narcotics,so the physician should be notified.A.B.C.These actions might be done if prescribed by the physician.

The Nurse Is Monitoring a Patient with a Casted Left