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St. Petersburg, FL – April 24, 2009 – Smith & Nephew Inc’s (LSE: SN; NYSE: SNN) Advanced Wound Management division announced today that nine clinical posters featuring its Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) products will be presented at next week’s Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) and Wound Healing Society Meeting.  The poster session is open from 7:30 to 9:00am on Monday, April 27, and will include a total of 15 additional posters on studies conducted with Smith & Nephew’s ACTICOAT^◊, ALLEVYN^◊, IODOSORB^◊, SECURA^◊ and BIOSTEP^◊ advanced dressings.

At booth #401, Smith & Nephew will present its RENASYS EZ^◊ and RENASYS GO^◊ NPWT products as well as its VERSAJET^◊ hydrosurgery system and the full portfolio of advanced wound dressings.
 
“We look forward to viewing the impressive new clinical results achieved with Smith & Nephew NPWT advanced wound management products,” said Robin Carlstein, Senior Vice President of Advanced Wound Devices at Smith & Nephew. “Smith & Nephew is committed to helping clinicians at every stage of wound treatment deliver the best possible care, and deliver value to their healthcare institutions.  We are particularly pleased to see so many posters regarding our NPWT offerings, as they significantly deepen the solid body of clinical evidence supporting their efficacy and ease-of-use.   NPWT is a critical part of our comprehensive platform for the preparation, protection and progression towards healing of advanced wounds.”
 
The body of new NPWT data on display at SAWC includes the following posters:

• Negative Pressure Wound Therapy as a Dressing for Split-Thickness Skin Grafts: Our Experience -- Julie A. O’Brien, MD; Genevieve B. Broderick, MD; Janice F. Lalikos, MD; Ronald Ignotz, PhD; Heather Strom, BS; and Raymond M. Dunn, MD, University of Massachusetts.

• An Evaluation of the Introduction of an Alternative Negative Pressure Wound Therapy -- Theresa A. Hurd, RN, MScN, MSN (Community Health Nursing) Med ACNP, Canadian Health System.

• Negative Pressure, Positive Energy: Wound Closure Without Pain -- Use of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Over Matrix Regeneration Grafts -- Estelle A. Zanotti, RN, MSN, APN-CNS, CWOCN, CRRN, and Dr. Robert Rosenbloom, MD, FACS, St. Alexius Medical Center, Hoffman Estates, Illinois.

• Management of Four Patients with Complicated Entercutaneous Fistula using Pouching System in Conjunction with Negative Pressure Therapy in a Long Term Acute Care Facility (LTAC) -- Anne Blevins, BSN, RN, WCC, Clinical Coordinator, Advanced Wound Care Team, Drake Center, Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati.

• Negative Pressure Wound Therapy for Fistula Management – Marc Gottlieb, MD; Judy Madura, RD, RN, DWOCN; Wendy Murphy, RN, BSN; Brenda Leon, RN, BSN; Sue Kennel, RN, BSN, CWCN; Dana Altman, RN, Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, Wound Care Program, Phoenix, Arizona.

The 22nd Annual SAWC/WHS Spring Meeting is the largest gathering of multidisciplinary wound care clinicians in the United States. It will be held from Sunday, April 26th to Wednesday, April 29th at the Gaylord Texan Resort near Dallas. 

For more information about Smith & Nephew, please go to www.smith-nephew.com .  Product-specific information is available at www.myrenasys.com , www.versajet.info , www.allevyn.com , www.iodosorb.com , www.acticoat.com , and www.securacare.com .

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