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Chest pain is a common complaint and encompasses a broad differential diagnosis that includes several life-threatening causes. A workup must focus on ruling out serious pathology before a clinician considers more benign causes.
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icd 10 codes for chest pain

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Chest pain is a common complaint and encompasses a broad differential diagnosis that includes several life-threatening causes. A workup must focus on ruling out serious pathology before a clinician considers more benign causes. Common descriptors of visceral pain are dull, deep, pressure and squeezing. Visceral pain also refers to other locations as a result of the nerves coursing through somatic nerve fibers as they reach the spinal cord. Ischemic heart pain, for example, may refer to the left or right shoulder, jaw or left arm.

CHEST PAIN DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

In the emergency department chest pain is the second most common complaint comprising approximately 5% of all emergency department visits. In evaluating for chest pain, the provider should always consider life-threatening causes of chest pain. These are listed below with approximate percent occurrence in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain based on a study by Fruerfaard et al.

Other common causes of chest pain with approximate percent occurrence in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain include:

ICD-10 CODES FOR CHEST PAIN

Codes Code Description
R07.1 Chest pain on breathing
R07.89 Other chest pain
R07.2 Precordial pain
R07.81 Pleurodynia
R07.82 Intercostal pain
R07.9 Chest pain, unspecified
I20.0 Unstable angina
I20.1 Angina pectoris with documented spasm
I20.8 Other forms of angina pectoris
I20.9 Angina pectoris, unspecified
G89.12 Acute post-thoracotomy pain
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