Chest Pain
Chest pain is discomfort or pain that you feel anywhere along the front of your body between your neck and upper abdomen.
Like many people with chest pain, you may fear a heart attack. However, there are many possible causes of chest pain. Some causes are mildly inconvenient, while other causes are serious, even life-threatening. Any organ or tissue in your chest can be the source of pain, including your heart, lungs, esophagus, muscles, ribs, tendons, or nerves.
If your chest pain is new or different from previous episodes of chest pain, you should be evaluated by a healthcare provider right away. This is especially true if you have any symptoms suggestive of a heart attack.
Chest Pain and Heart Attack Symptom Detection at Wake Forest Baptist
The Chest Pain Center in our Emergency Department was created with the knowledge that many people delay treatment for heart attack symptoms. So we've created a system in which we can quickly assess patients with heart attack symptoms and provide life-saving thrombolytics or other treatments. The Wake Forest Baptist Emergency Department utilizes the resources of the Wake Forest Baptist Heart Center, the only heart center in the region nationally ranked by USNews and Good Housekeeping magazines.
Learn more about chest pain and other heart attack symptoms and the Heart Center of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center.