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A 24-year-old man is brought to the emergency department after a motorcycle crash. He has an unstable pelvic fracture and has lost an estimated 1500 mL of blood. His pulse rate is 126/min, blood pressure 86/54 mmHg, and his hands are cold and clammy. He has passed 10 mL of urine in the past hour. His plasma creatinine on arrival is 78 micromol/L.

Which one of the following combinations of renal plasma flow, glomerular filtration rate (GFR) and filtration fraction would you expect in this man now?