Task: Answer Verification
Input (English): Question: Do plastic wound protectors affect wound infection rates following laparoscopic-assisted colectomy?
Answer: The wound protector, although useful for mechanical retraction of small wounds, does not significantly diminish the rate of wound infection at the bowel resection/anastomotic site. Patients undergoing elective resection for inflammatory processes have higher infection rates than patients undergoing laparoscopic-assisted colectomy for polyps or cancer.
Output (English): no