SURGICAL ADJUNCTS HAVING MEDICANTS CONTROLLABLY RELEASABLE THEREFROM

摘要

Surgical adjuncts having medicants controllably releasable therefrom are provided. In general, an adjunct retaining at least one medicant controllably releasable therefrom can be configured to be responsive to one or more physiological triggers. The adjunct can be provided with the at least one medicant releasably retained within the adjunct. In general, the one or more physiological triggers can each include an environmental condition to which the adjunct is exposed, such as when the adjunct is positioned within a body, such as by being stapled to tissue. Various physiological triggers can affect the adjunct, causing the adjunct to release the at least one medicant to the surrounding tissue in a selectable elution profile depending on the physiological trigger(s) that affect a particular adjunct.