Discuss the medical management of chest pain, including how the various therapies relieve chest pain.
A- 1.Artery relaxers. Nitroglycerin- usually taken as a tablet under the tongue. That relaxes heart arteries so blood can flow more easily through the narrow space.
2.Aspirin
3.Thrombolytic drugs
4.blood thinners
5.antidepressants
6.acid suppressing medications etc.
These all are the medical management and therapies that can relief a person in chest pain.
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