12. Follow up care and treatment is at the discretion of the surgeon, and may include antibiotics and appropriate supportive therapy for other concurrent medical conditions (ketosis, metritis, dehydration, etc.)

*When possible and practical, pre-operative beta-lactam antibiotics (penicillin, amoxicillin, ampicillin, ceftiofur) are indicated to help reduce the chance of clostridial intoxication. It is highly recommended that all candidates for this method of repair have recent and routine vaccinations for clostridial disease, as this is an occasional (but if contracted, always fatal) sequela to the LDA toggle suture repair method.