ICD 10 Chest Pain Codes: Practical Approach for Diagnosis
The reasons for chest pain are many and can be life-threatening. Clinicians must rule out significant pathology before considering benign explanations. Dull, deep, pressure, and squeezing describe visceral discomfort. Because nerves travel through somatic nerve fibers to the spinal cord, visceral discomfort can occur elsewhere. The left or right shoulder, jaw, or arm may have […]