Ribs are susceptible to external forces that can cause fractures. Rib fractures can be treated conservatively or surgically, depending on the individual patient’s condition. Care should also be taken to prevent complications while treating the fracture. Generally, a single closed rib fracture requires only analgesia, braking, and immobilization. Pain relief can be provided with some nonsteroidal analgesics, and fixation of rib fractures is usually done with adhesive tape for thoracic fixation. If the rib fracture damages the surrounding pleura, blood vessels, nerves and other tissues it should be treated surgically. Open fracture treatment should be early and thorough debridement treatment to remove broken bone fragments and bite flat fracture ends to avoid stabbing the surrounding vascular nerve tissues, and tetanus antitoxin should be injected. Since patients with rib fracture will have pain when coughing, patients will refrain from controlling their cough, but this situation will easily cause pulmonary atelectasis due to the retention of respiratory secretions and may even cause serious lung infection, so you should choose appropriate pain relievers when treating rib fracture, and you should also teach patients to do coughing action training, and you should also choose some antibiotics to prevent lung infection. Rib fractures are treated according to the different conditions of the fracture and will not cause sequelae as long as the treatment plan chosen is reasonable.