TABLE 3.

First Described Symptom or Complaint and Expressions Used to Underline Intensity of Symptoms in Calls and Correlating Pain/Pressure/Uncomfortable Intensity (Numeric Rating Scale) Reported in the Questionnaire (N = 30)

Patient (Sex)	First Described Complaint	Expressions Used to Underline Intensity of Symptoms	NRS
1 (M)	Severe chest pain	Severe chest pain	8
2 (M)	Pressure high up in the chest	Very strong discomfort	7
3 (M)	Chest pain	It doesn't feel good	7
4 (M)	Feeling bad	Feel so damn bad	4
5 (M)	Pain in the chest	It was very difficult	6
6 (M)	Pain, comes and goes, a little hard to breathe	-	2
7 (F)	Palpitations and cramp in the chest	-	4
8 (M)	Nausea and vomiting	Feeling very weak	6
9 (M)	Pain in the chest	-	7
10 (F)	Feeling really weird	Feeling really weird	7
11 (F)	Don't feel very well	-	0
12 (M)	Pressure in the chest	-	2
13 (M)	Chest pain, it runs out in my arm	-	4
14 (M)	Stomach and pain in the chest	It has been like hell, feels disgusting	7
15 (M)	Trouble with the heart	Bloody painful	7
16 (M)	Chest pain	-	8
17 (M)	Pressing, cramp in the chest	-	5
18 (F)	Got weak, sweating copiously	-	3
19 (F)	Strange feeling in arms	-	3
20 (M)	Neck, shoulder, and chest tension	It felt very uncomfortable, it felt damn uncomfortable	5
21 (F)	Pressure over the chest	I am very nauseous	5
22 (M)	Pain across the chest	I felt really terrible, it was really strong	4
23 (F)	Heart trouble	It hurts a lot	7
24 (M)	So much pain in chest, left arm, little in right arm	So much pain, it gets worse and worse	7
25 (F)	Discomfort in the chest	I feel so weird	9
26 (M)	Such a lot of pain in the chest	Such a lot of pain	6
27 (F)	Chest pain.	I can no longer bear it	8
28 (F)	Feeling weird, heart beats so terribly	Heart beats so terribly.	7
29 (M)	Feeling really bad, dry mouth	Feeling really bad, I feel worse and worse	7
30 (M)	Sensation of angina	Clear feeling of malaise, uncomfortable	6

NRS: 11-point scale, ranging from 0 to 10.

Abbreviations: F, female; M, male; NRS, numeric rating scale.