A nurse is collecting data from a client who has multiple fractures in his left leg and reports severe pain and tingling in the extremity. The nurse should suspect which of the following complications?

A. Fat embolism syndrome: Rationale: This presents with respiratory distress, petechiae, and altered mental status, not primarily with localized pain and tingling. B. Pulmonary embolism: Rationale: PE presents with dyspnea, chest pain, tachycardia, and hypoxia, not limb pain and tingling. C. Osteomyelitis: Rationale: Bone infection develops over days or weeks, not acutely with intense pain and tingling. Redness and fever would also be more prominent. D. Acute compartment syndrome: Rationale: Characterized by severe pain unrelieved by medication, paresthesia (tingling), and tight, swollen compartments. It's a surgical emergency.