Stick injury
A stick injury or a stick injury is a frequent injury to the throat wall , the floor of the oral cavity or the tongue , which occurs particularly in dogs . It arises when fetching branches or sticks in the mouth. If the stick offend on the ground while running, he rammed either its end or in breaking with the breaking end to the soft tissues and leads to a Pfählungswunde . The affected animal may experience coughing, choking, pain, bloody salivation and swelling.
The treatment is carried out through a thorough wound toilet , usually under general anesthesia , whereby all stick or bark residues must be completely removed. The wound is then sewn, and drainage may have to be placed. An antibiotic cover makes sense. Complications mainly arise when pieces of wood remain in the wound. Then can abscesses or fistulas with fever , fatigue and dysphagia occur. This can happen weeks after the actual injury. Occasionally, the infection can along the fascia in the neck up to the mediastinum spread and mediastinitis (inflammation of the middle coat) or pleurisy trigger (pleurisy). Injuries to the larynx can also lead to severe shortness of breath and even suffocation.
literature
- Peter F. Suter: Blunt and perforating pharynx injuries, pharyngeal foreign bodies, stick injuries to the pharynx. In: Praktikum der Hundeklinik , Paul Parey., 10th edition 2006, ISBN 978-3-8304-4141-0 , pp. 677-678.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markus Eickhoff: Das Hundezahnbuch: Recognizing problems correctly Preventing pain . Georg Thieme Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8304-4198-4 , p. 95 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed June 19, 2019]).
- ^ Hans Georg Nobody, Susi Arnold-Gloor: Internship at the dog clinic . Ed .: Peter F. Suter. Georg Thieme Verlag, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8304-4141-0 , p. 677-678 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed June 19, 2019]).
