Management of Post-Traumatic Chest Pain After a Push
You’ve diagnosed chest wall contusion and costochondral sprain. Now what? The complete management pathway — analgesia, breathing exercises, ice-heat protocol, red flags, follow-up, and complication management.
You Know What’s Wrong. Now You Need to Know What to Write.
This is where most GPs default to “Tab Diclofenac BD for 5 days” and leave it there. But managing post-traumatic chest pain properly is more than a single painkiller. It’s a structured protocol that prevents the two complications that turn a simple contusion into a hospital admission: atelectasis (from shallow breathing due to pain) and post-traumatic pneumonia (from the atelectasis you didn’t prevent).
This 3-page prescription guide gives you the complete management pathway — from first-line analgesia with the right NSAID at the right dose for the right duration, to the breathing exercises that prevent atelectasis, to the ice-heat transition protocol, to the red flags that should bring the patient back immediately, to the exact antibiotics if pneumonia develops, to the pneumothorax management ladder from observation to needle decompression.
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Looking for the Diagnosis Guide Instead?
This page covers the management and prescription. If you want the full clinical reasoning — push vs punch biomechanics, 60-second safety check, 7 strategic history questions, systematic examination, tiered differentials, and ABCDE chest X-ray reading — that’s the GP Topics guide.
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