Chest Pain in the Deployed Setting: A Case of Wellens Syndrome

ABSTRACT Managing patients with chest pain in deployed and austere environments can be extremely challenging for military health care providers. Limited resources, including access to equipment, emergent cardiac catheterization, surgery, lead deleterious consequences, myonecrosis possible death. Wellens syndrome is a form of acute coronary that involves stenosis the left anterior descending artery, leading myocardial infarction. Most cases literature involve diagnosis treatment civilian, nondeployed hospital setting. We present case civilian contractor who had experienced an episode resolved rest now new findings on electrocardiogram concerning syndrome.