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Welcome back to another episode of Behind the Knife, the Sessionaz Hussein, the current

surgical education fellow for Behind the Knife, I am with Dr. Rosen today to discuss

his recent JAMA article, Biologic vs Synthetic Mesh for Single Stage Repair of Contaminated

eventual hernias, a randomized clinical trial.

Thank you so much for joining us today, Dr. Rosen.

Thank you very much.

I'm excited to be here.

As a quick introduction, Dr. Rosen is a director for the center of abdominal core health

at the Cleveland Clinic.

He is one of the world's leading experts in hernias and has contributed to the advancement

of this field through his plethora of studies, as well as his atlas of abdominal wall reconstruction.

Before we dive into this study, could you discuss why you created this trial to start

with?

Sure.

So I think, you know, this goes back a long way and I think that there's a lot of people

that were involved in the creation of this trial and the concept and the design and I think

that what this really bore out of was, you know, almost a decade ago now, most of us were

doing any complex abdominal reconstruction in the setting of contamination with biologic

infection.

That's what we thought was the safest way to do it and that's what we thought was appropriate.

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