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A 24-year-old man is brought to the emergency department 40 minutes after he came off his motorcycle. He has a closed fracture of the right femur and a tense, swollen thigh. He is alert but restless. Pulse 116 beats per minute, blood pressure 116/94 mmHg, respiratory rate 24 per minute. His hands are cool and capillary refill takes four seconds. He has passed 10 mL of urine in the past hour.

Compared with his state before the crash, which one of the following combinations of left ventricular end-diastolic volume (EDV), stroke volume (SV) and systemic vascular resistance would you expect in this man now?

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