I presented this article at my first site visit titled: Surgical site infection in mesh repair for ventral hernia in contaminated field: A systematic review and meta-analysis. I researched this topic as a case I scrubbed into was an emergency laparotomy for a patient with an incarcerated ventral hernia causing a small bowel obstruction. During the procedure, the small bowel perforated and enteric contents with fecal material was spilled causing the wound/field to become contaminated. Therefore, I wanted to know about mesh repair increasing the incidence of SSI in a contaminated field. The results I found from the research was that use mesh repair in complicated ventral hernia was not found to be associated with an increased incidence of SSI, even in a contaminated field. However, 177 patients included with concomitant bowel resection during the repair was found to have higher incidence of SSI with mesh repair.