Cara Hendry

Chest pain is a common complaint of patients presenting to the Emergency Department, but there is a wide variety of underlying causes. These include ischaemic chest pain (acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and stable angina), non-ischaemic cardiovascular chest pain (aortic dissection, pulmonary embolism, pericarditis) and a wide variety of non cardiovascular causes (musculoskeletal, psychiatric and gastrointestinal causes).