Chest Trauma

💊Treatment Options

• 1Initial management focuses on securing the airway
• 2breathing
• 3and circulation
• 4with immediate interventions such as chest tube placement for a collapsed lung or significant fluid collection. Severe injuries involving major vessel or cardiac damage require emergency surgical repair
• 5while stable rib fractures are managed with pain control and breathing exercises to prevent pneumonia. Close monitoring in an intensive care setting is often required for significant chest trauma.