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Smith & Nephew announces European launch of PICO 7
Smith & Nephew announces European launch of PICO 7.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 1704E Smith & Nephew Plc 07 February 2018 \n\nSmith & Nephew announces European launch of new PICO™ 7 Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System\n7 February 2018\nSmith & Nephew (LSE: SN, NYSE: SNN), the global medical technology business, is pleased to announce the European launch of the new PICO 7 Single Use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy System (sNPWT).\nPICO 7 delivers a number of enhancements which benefit both the clinical effectiveness and patient experience.\nClinically PICO 7 delivers a more efficient vacuum and superior leak management1, designed to support improved application on anatomically challenging areas where it is traditionally more difficult to achieve and maintain a seal. It also includes an industry-first dressing-full indicator for sNPWT devices, which is intended to reduce unnecessary dressing changes and wastage.\nFor the patient, PICO 7 is more than 25% quieter than the previous version2 making it less intrusive, of particular value when the patient is outside the home or sleeping. There is also a new user interface to simplify patient operation and a belt clip to improve portability.\nDr Theresa Hurd, RN, MScN, PhD said \"Having tried PICO 7 I can confirm that it has real clinical, economic and patient benefits. With the new PICO 7 system I can be confident that we will experience fewer leaks and can hence reduce the number of nurse interventions, reducing costs and improving care.\"\nPICO 7 is designed for patients at risk of poor healing, and has been shown to help minimise the failures of healing that may lead to infection and/or dehiscence3. It is suitable for use in both a hospital and community setting and approved for a number of indications, including surgically closed incision sites. A recently published meta-analysis, demonstrated the efficacy of PICO used prophylactically for SSI reduction in closed surgical incisions compared with standard care3.\n\"With PICO we revolutionised the use of negative pressure wound therapy, making a treatment previously only available in a hospital inpatient setting available to outpatients in a clinical and cost effective portable solution,\" said Paolo Di Vincenzo, Smith & Nephew's SVP of Advanced Wound Management. \"With PICO 7 we have delivered significant design improvements that contribute to improved patien...