Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: * Age \> 18 * Patients presenting for elective ventral hernia repair * Patients deemed to be good surgical candidates, with no active life-threatening cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, renal disease, hematologic disease -Patients who will have a closed incision following the surgery Exclusion Criteria: * Known allergy to any material used in any wound treatment (Prevena- Acrylic adhesive or silver, Prineo- Dermabond glue, Standard- Bacitracin, Xeroform, surgical tape) -Active smokers (within the past 4 weeks) presenting for elective hernia repair * Patients with active life-threatening cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, renal disease, hematologic disease presenting for elective ventral hernia repair * Patients presenting for emergent ventral hernia repair (in the setting of bowel strangulation, necrosis, penetrating trauma) as it will be difficult to consent those patients for the study preoperatively * Patients with severe systemic sepsis * Patients with frank purulence in the wound -Patients with an open wound following surgery -Patients undergoing a panniculectomy