Oct. 22, 2009 (PR Newswire) -- ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 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(TM) AG, ALLEVYN AG Gentle, ACTICOAT(TM) and IODOSORB(TM) 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.

"We look forward to the presentation of such a large body of new data associated with our advanced wound management products," said Tom Dugan, North American President, Smith & Nephew Advanced Wound Management. "We are particularly excited to see the results of a large, prospective multi-center study of gauze-based NPWT on grafted and non-grafted patients. 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 delighted that so many clinicians are advancing new research with the aid of our comprehensive platform for the preparation, protection and progression towards healing of wounds."

The body of new data on display at the Symposium includes the following posters:

    --  A Prospective Multi-Centre Clinical Evaluation of Gauze-Based Negative
Pressure Wound Therapy: Results from 131 patients, Dr. Raymond M. Dunn,
et al.

    --  Negative Pressure Wound Therapy as a Dressing for Split-Thickness Skin
Grafts: Our Experience, Dr. Julie O'Brien et al.

    --  A Novel Dressing Technique for the Management of Highly Exudating Lower
Extremity Wounds Utilizing Gauze-based Negative Pressure Wound Therapy,
Penny Campbell, John Cockwill.

    --  A Prospective, Open, Multi-Centre Study to Evaluate the Functionality
and Device Performance of a New Portable Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
System in the Management of Acute and Chronic Wounds, Dr. Don Hudson and
Dr. Kevin Adams.

    --  A Case Report of Successful Limb Salvage with a new Negative Pressure
Wound Therapy System, Dr. Pasquale Cancilliere.

    --  A Prospective, Non-Comparative, Clinical Evaluation to Determine the
Effect of a New Non-Adhesive Absorbent 3-Layer Silver Barrier Dressing
on the Reduction of Bioburden and Closure of Venous Leg Ulcers, Dr.