Device to Assist With Abdominal Access During Laparoscopic Surgery

Inclusion Criteria: * Age \>/= 18 * Scheduled for laparoscopic surgery * Able to understand and willing to sign a written informed consent form Exclusion Criteria: * Age \< 18 * Any situation where blind, peri-umbilical passage of a Veress needle is contraindicated. * Any situation where patients have suspected or confirmed intra-abdominal adhesions involving the peri-umbilical abdominal wall. * Any situation where patients have a suspected or confirmed umbilical hernia or peri-umbilical ventral hernia. * Any situation where there is not intact, uncompromised skin of the peri-umbilical region where the device is to be placed.