Smith & Nephew PLC - direct/ Smith & Nephew PLC: Launch of New ALLEVYN Gentle

Smith & Nephew announces all-embracing barrage of new ALLEVYN* Gentle and ALLEVYN* Gentle Border anguish dressings

Addition of new articles to the ALLEVYN* ambit provides a complete chump band-aid in beat anguish affliction administration

Hull, (U.K), December 12 2007 - The Advanced Wound Management business assemblage of Smith & Nephew (LSE: SN; NYSE: SNN) appear today that it is ablution two new ALLEVYN articles to enhance its absolute ambit of accelerating anguish affliction products.

ALLEVYN Gentle and ALLEVYN Gentle Border amalgamate the above damp administration of the ALLEVYN ambit with the different allowances of silicone gel and soft-gel adhesives, allowance to bear the optimal ambiance for the advance of faster anguish healing, whilst accompanying maximising abundance and minimising affliction for the patient.

Commenting on the launch, Joe Woody, President, Smith & Nephew Advanced Wound Management, said: "Following the acknowledged barrage of ALLEVYN Ag in September, the accession of the ALLEVYN Gentle articles to the casting allows us to accommodate a complete ambit of cream dressings to our customers, ensuring our connected success in this articulation of the market. These two new articles will add a new akin of versatility and across of appliance to the ALLEVYN ambit to abutment our barter in accouterment the best accessible accommodating care."

ALLEVYN Gentle Border is a silicone gel adhering hydrocellular cream dressing, advised to minimise affliction to the accommodating and agony to the anguish at bathrobe change with best abrasion time for patients with brittle skin; ALLEVYN Gentle is a soft-gel adhering hydrocellular cream bathrobe advised to facilitate easier appliance if accessory assimilation is appropriate and minimises affliction on abatement for patients with brittle skin.

"The new ALLEVYN ambit will added enhance the affliction that Healthcare Professionals can accommodate to patients with ambiguous wounds. The ALLEVYN Gentle and Gentle Border variants should advice affected the challenges in minimising affliction for patients with brittle derma including patients with brittle healing bake wounds," said Simon Booth, Burn Researcher, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead.

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Sidonie Myers
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Smith & Nephew Advanced Wound Management

Notes for Editors

About ALLEVYN

The ALLEVYN artefact ambit helps to facilitate healing by abbreviation the accident of maceration (softening and whitening of the derma that increases the accident of infection) and advancement an optimal clammy anguish environment. ALLEVYN offers the analyst a clinically accurate ambit of dressings that are amount able both for the analyst and the buyer. With the accession of ALLEVYN Gentle and ALLEVYN Gentle Border to the range, ALLEVYN now expands a clinician´s accommodation to minimise pain, maximise accommodating abundance and optimise healing for added patients in added situations.

ALLEVYN now added simplifies chump choice, by accouterment a new, different and able aggregate of allowances through anniversary of the four artefact groups in its anew authentic and continued range. ALLEVYN has now accumulated the roven strengths of its triple-action ALLEVYN technology with a new akin of versatility and across of application.

The three new articles in the ambit are:

ALLEVYN Ag - All the allowances of ALLEVYN, with the accession of anti-microbial argent for use on wounds with doubtable infection or adulterated wounds advised as per bounded protocol.

ALLEVYN Gentle Border - All the allowances of ALLEVYN with the accession of a silicone gel adhering for use on patients with brittle derma area accessory assimilation is not used.

ALLEVYN Gentle - All the allowances of ALLEVYN with the accession of a bendable gel adhering for use on patients with brittle derma if accessory assimilation is required.

About Smith & Nephew

Smith & Nephew Advanced Wound Management is headquartered in the United Kingdom. The organisation has accomplishment centres in the United Kingdom and Largo, FL.

Smith & Nephew is a all-around medical technology business, specialising in Orthopaedic Reconstruction, Orthopaedic Trauma and Clinical Therapies, Endoscopy and Advanced Wound Management products. Smith & Nephew is a all-around baton in arthroscopy and beat anguish administration and is one of the arch all-around orthopaedics companies.

Smith & Nephew is committed to allowance advance people´s lives. The Company prides itself on the backbone of its relationships with its surgeons and able healthcare customers, with whom its name is alike with top standards of performance, addition and trust. The Company operates in 32 countries about the world. Annual sales in 2006 were about $2.8 billion.

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