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A 58-year-old man walks into a Perth emergency department at 1900 hours saying he has had heavy central chest pain radiating to his jaw for the past 40 minutes. He is grey and sweating and asks for a chair. His pulse is 96/min, blood pressure 138/84 mmHg, respiratory rate 20/min and oxygen saturation 97% breathing room air. He is fully alert and speaks in complete sentences. No electrocardiogram has been recorded. Which one of the following categories should the triage nurse assign under the Australasian Triage Scale?