The nurse, assessing a middle-aged patient experiencing chest pain, realizes that presence of which symptoms would be most characteristic 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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