Prophylactic NPWT to Reduce SSI in Colorectal Surgery

Exclusion Criteria

• •patients currently enrolled in another interventional clinical trial,
• •patients with a BMI less than 20, patients with a current abdominal abscess or infection (including a known urinary tract infection),
• •patients allergic to or hypersensitive to silver, patients planning to undergo a second colorectal surgical procedure (e.g., colostomy or ileostomy takedown) or any other general surgery in less than 30 days of index-surgery,
• •any patient in which the planned surgery would include: i) placement of a stoma in the principal incision; ii) placement of a drain into the supra-peritoneal fascia space that emerges through the principal incision; iv) placement of a drain into the intraperitoneal space that emerges through the principal incision; and v) supplementation of any of the irrigation fluid with antibiotic or antiseptic drugs,
• •patients with healing disorders,
• •pregnant women,
• •prisoners, or
• •any patient that is deemed unsuitable for the study by the Principal Investigator or the operating surgeon/Co-Investigator.