Dieter Bruno, MD, FACS wrote an article titled “Making Laparoscopic Surgery Safer” in the January 2020 issue of Today’s Geriatric Medicine in which he explains how wound closure devices (like AbClose™ Port Site Closure Device) help guard against the challenges faced by geriatric patients. Dr. Bruno discusses wound closure challenges in geriatric patients, potential complications, wound closure options, and how to reduce the risks whenever possible. “By ensuring that wound closure in geriatric patients is consistently free from complications, surgeons can avert problems that may lead to additional surgery… For all patients with impaired wound healing, it’s important to have a robust closure mechanism for the laparoscopic port site... Laparoscopic closure devices are changing the risk for port-site hernia and other wound healing complications… When surgeons use an effective closure device without error, the fascia is closed tightly and hernia is avoided. With older adult patients, avoiding complications and a potential second surgery, this is a welcome approach.”