Bloat

Also known as GDV i.e Gastric Dilatation and Volvulus. During this, the stomach in large breed dogs and rarely in smaller breed is bloated and twisted causing several physiological abnormalities. This is a surgical emergency and only surgery will correct the torsion. It is dealt as an emergency basis where the bloated abdomen is decompressed , the patient is stabilized and rushed to surgery where the stomach is de-rotated and tacked to the body wall.