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For many surgeons, closing the abdominal wall without injuring the intestines is a challenging process with serious consequences. If anything goes wrong during the procedure, patients can face bowel perforations or a hernia at the incision site. Often, repairing those complications requires additional surgeries.

Dr. Jason Spector, a plastic surgeon at Â鶹¸ßÇå and NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, may have found a solution to that issue. Dr. Spector — in collaboration with Dave Putnam, an associate professor in the Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University — is testing out a device that would protect the intestines while surgeons close an incision, according to the Cornell Chronicle.

to learn more about the device and Dr. Spector’s work.