Smith & Nephew plc

Smith & Nephew plc together with its subsidiaries develops manufactures markets and sells medical devices and services in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Orthopaedics Sports Medicine & ENT and Advanced Wound Management. The company offers knee implant products for knee replacement procedures; hip implants for revision procedures; and trauma and extremities products that include internal and external devices used in the stabilization of severe fractures and deformity correction procedures. It also provides sports medicine joint repair products including instruments technologies and implants to perform minimally invasive surgery of the joints such as the repair of soft tissue injuries and degenerative conditions of the shoulder knee hip and small joints. In addition the company offers arthroscopic enabling technologies comprising fluid management equipment for surgical access high-definition cameras digital image capture scopes light sources and monitors to assist with visualization inside the joints radio frequency electromechanical and mechanical tissue resection devices and hand instruments for removing damaged tissue; and ear nose and throat solutions. Further it provides advanced wound care products for the treatment and prevention of acute and chronic wounds which comprise leg wounds diabetic and pressure ulcers burns and post-operative wounds; advanced wound bioactives such as biologics and other bioactive technologies for debridement and dermal repair/regeneration as well as regenerative medicine products including skin bone graft and articular cartilage substitutes; and advanced wound devices such as traditional and single-use negative pressure wound therapy and hydrosurgery systems. It primarily serves the healthcare providers. Smith & Nephew plc was founded in 1856 and is headquartered in Watford the United Kingdom.