The nurse, assessing a middle-aged patient experiencing chest pain, realizes that which symptoms would be most suggestive of an acute myocardial infarction?
A) Substernal pressure-type pain, radiating down the left arm
B) Colic-like epigastric pain
C) Sharp, well-localized unilateral chest and left arm pain
D) Sharp, burning chest pain moving from place to place
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