Performance of Flexible Self-adherent Absorbent Dressing Coated With a Soft Silicone Layer After Hip -,Knee- Arthroplasty,Primary Spine Surgery in Comparison to a Standard Wound Dressing

Male or female subjects, 18 years and above, undergoing hip, knee or spinal surgery with an expected hospital stay for 4 days or more will be included in the trial. Individual trial duration will be for 7 days (follow-up). Two hundred subjects will be included in the trial, i.e. 100 subjects per arm. The treatment arm (either new or standard wound dressing) will be assigned by randomization stratified by type of surgery (i.e. hip, knee or spine).