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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services retain single NPWT code

St. Petersburg, FL – November 9, 2009 – The Advanced Wound Management division of Smith & Nephew, Inc., a subsidiary of Smith & Nephew plc (LSE: SN; NYSE: SNN), applauded the federal government’s decision last week to maintain the current, single reimbursement code for negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) devices. This decision, announced by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), affirms the conclusion reached by the Agency on Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) earlier this year. AHRQ, like CMS, concluded that evidence does not exist to determine a significant therapeutic distinction between NPWT systems. As a result, CMS decided to maintain a single code for NPWT product components, including the canister and the wound care set. [...]

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Gauze-based NPWT capable of achieving same treatment goals as foam-based NPWT

Gauze-based NPWT capable of achieving same treatment goals as foam-based NPWT St. Petersburg FL- October 23, 2009 – The Advanced Wound Management Division of Smith & Nephew, Inc., a subsidiary of Smith & Nephew Plc (LSE: SN; NYSE: SNN), highlighted the results of a multi-center study which demonstrate that gauze-based Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) achieves many of the common treatment goals defined for foam-based NPWT systems. These goals include a reduction in wound dimension, exudate, and improvement in granulation tissue. A second poster highlighting a sub-set of patients in the same study found that skin graft take was dramatically enhanced and care facilitated by gauze-based NPWT. [...]

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New data demonstrate efficacy, value of Smith & Nephew Advanced Wound Management portfolio

St. Petersburg FL- Oct 22, 2009 – The Advanced Wound Management Division of Smith & Nephew, Inc., a subsidiary of Smith & Nephew Plc (LSE: SN; NYSE: SNN), announced today that clinicians will present a total of 20 clinical posters featuring its Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) Systems and ALLEVYN™ AG, ALLEVYN AG Gentle, ACTICOAT™ and IODOSORB™ advanced wound dressings during the 24th Annual Clinical Symposium on Advances in Skin and Wound Care’s poster session. The poster session opens at 10:30am CT on October 23, 2009. [...]

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Federal Court of Australia upholds Smith & Nephew's appeal

MELBOURNE, Australia- Oct. 10, 2009- Court overturns previous interlocutory injunction against Smith & Nephew's foam dressing kits in Australia

Smith & Nephew Inc.'s Advanced Wound Management division (LSE: SN; NYSE: SNN) announced that the Federal Court of Australia has ruled in its favour and set aside KCI Medical Australia's (KCIMA) interlocutory injunction restraining Smith & Nephew from commercialising in Australia foam dressing kits for use in negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). KCIMA has until 4 pm on Monday 12 October 2009 to seek a stay of the order setting aside the injunction while they seek to appeal the decision.

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Advanced Wound Therapies in the Management of Severe Military Lower Limb Trauma: A New Perspective

Lt Col S. L. A. Jeffery, RAMC
The Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham B29 6JD, United Kingdom Correspondence: sjeffery@nhs.net Objective: The purpose of this article is to describe the treatment of injuries resulting from land mine explosions using a holistic approach that includes gauze-based negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) and encompasses wound bed preparation, exudate management, and infection control. Method: In the treatment of 3 traumatic injuries, each requiring limb amputation, we describe the application of NPWT using the Chariker-Jeter system, which uses a single layer of saline-moistened antimicrobial gauze laid directly onto the wound bed. [...]

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