Fluid in the lungs can be treated with diuretics (furosemide). If your dog is suffering from a decreased blood or platelet supply, it will need to be treated intravenously with special fluids (crystalloids or colloids). If your dog has lost consciousness, clear its airway as best as you can, and if necessary, provide breathing assistance and/or oxygen. If you are a witness to the electrocution, make sure you turn off the electricity before moving uour dog. There are often tan or gray wounds in the mouth, and areas with red spots inside the heart lining. Generally with electrical cord injuries the lungs are filled with a pink, foamy fluid. This possibility can be ruled out through blood coagulation testing. The poison used to kill rodents contains anticoagulants which block the production of vitamin K - necessary for the clotting agents found in the blood to work normally. Heart problems can also occur if your dog has ingested rodent poison. This will enable your veterinarian to confirm or rule out heart disease. Electrocardiogram (ECG, or EKG) recording can be used to examine the electrical currents in the heart muscles, and may reveal any abnormalities in cardiac electrical conduction (which underlies the heart’s ability to contract/beat). Issues in the heart, such as an irregular heart rate, could be due to an existing heart disease. The symptoms listed above can be due to an electrical cord injury, but there are other possibilities as well. Your veterinarian will perform a thorough physical exam on your dog, taking into account the background history of symptoms and possible incidents that might have precipitated this condition. Whether it is because of teething, with the urge to chew as new teeth grow in, or because your puppy has a natural tendency to chew on things, it is during these younger years that injury due to biting into an electrical cord is most likely to happen. Most injuries of this type are seen in animals younger than two years old.
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