{"id":959,"date":"2010-02-04T04:23:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T09:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycockerspaniel.com\/?p=959"},"modified":"2015-09-26T02:47:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T06:47:44","slug":"complications-of-debarking-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/?p=959","title":{"rendered":"Complications of debarking surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone forwarded me a link to a recent news article about debarking. I noticed this article fails miserably in providing dog owners relevant information regarding this surgical procedure. The article only mentions the possibility of difficulty breathing as a result. Yes, this is a serious consequence and there many more. The medical term for debarking is vocal cord cordectomy. Here is a list of complications.<\/p>\n<p>Risks of Vocal Cord Cordectomy (Debarking)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compromised airway<\/li>\n<li>Dysphagia (problems swallowing)<\/li>\n<li>Adhesions<\/li>\n<li>Formation of granulation tissue<\/li>\n<li>Stenosis (hardening) of the windpipe<\/li>\n<li>Infection<\/li>\n<li>Cutaneous fistula (hole in the windpipe)<\/li>\n<li>Bleeding<\/li>\n<li>Aspiration pnuemonia<\/li>\n<li>Gastrostomy tube dependence (relying on a feeding tube)<\/li>\n<li>Tracheotomy dependence (relying on a breathing tube)<\/li>\n<li>Death<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>References:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Otolaryngology: Head &#038; Neck Surgery, 4th ed., Cummings, (2005)\n<\/li>\n<li>Management of Early-Stage Laryngeal Cancer, Nishant Agrawal, MDa, Patrick K. Ha, MD, Otolaryngol Clin N Am 41 (2008) 757\u2013769\n<\/li>\n<li>Cancer: Principles &#038; Practice of Oncology (7th Edition), Editors: DeVita, Vincent T., Hellman, Samuel, Rosenberg, Steven A., (2005)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone forwarded me a link to a recent news article about debarking. I noticed this article fails miserably in providing dog owners relevant information regarding this surgical procedure. The article only mentions the possibility of difficulty breathing as a result. Yes, this is a serious consequence and there many more. The medical term for debarking&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/?p=959\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Complications of debarking surgery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-debarking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":961,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions\/961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mycockerspaniel.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}