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

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, and cardiac surgery, can lead to deleterious consequences, including myonecrosis and possible death. Wellens syndrome is a form of acute coronary syndrome that involves stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery, leading to possible acute myocardial infarction.