摘要：Every year, millions of people experience burns, suffer from nonhealing wounds, or have acute wounds that become complicated by infection, dehiscence or problematic scarring. Effective wound treatment requires carefully considered interventions often requiring multiple clinic or hospital visits. The resulting costs of wound care are staggering, and more efficacious and cost-effective therapies are needed to decrease this burden. Unfortunately, the expenses and difficulties encountered in performing clinical trials have led to a relatively slow growth of new treatment options for the wound management. Research efforts attempting to examine wound pathophysiology have been hampered by the lack of an adequate chronic wound healing model, and the complexity of the wound healing cascade has limited attempts at pharmacological modification. As such, currently available wound healing therapies are only partially effective. Therefore, many new therapies are emerging that target various aspects of wound repair and the promise of new therapeutic interventions is on the immediate horizon.

摘要：Objective:The objective is to outline the overall health scene as it is in New Zealand and to demonstrate that there is tremendous potential for the increased use of Moist Exposed Burn Therapy(MEBT)across a wide variety of health care facilities within New Zealand.Method:The presentation allows me to share with you evidence from clini- cal based practice and examples of how and where MEBT and the product Moist Exposed Burn Ointment(MEBO)has been used within New Zealand' s health services.This will include evidence from other nursing colleagues who work in the Aged Care sector or in the New Zealand community.Result:My experiences in the clinical field have enabled me to see that there is much that can be done through education for nurses by professional nurse educators. Currently there is little or no funding available to Nurse Educators for them to be able to provide the required education and training,or to be able to introduce the correct clini- cal techniques of MEBT into our heahhcare profession. Patients who require wound management and have been treated using the MEBT method are provided with sustained wound healing,improved outcomes and consequently an improved quality of life. New Zealand health providers are beginning to realize that use of MEBT and MEBO is a cost effective form of treatment.Not only in monetary terms but in ethical and physiolog- ical terms as well.At this point in time however,there is evidence that nurses will experi- ment with products such as MEBO but revert back to techniques and products they know and are comfortable with in day to day nursing situations. It can therefore be concluded that New Zealand nurses do not have adequate knowl- edge or understanding of the clinical application of MEBT/MEBO to achieve the optimum results for their patients. Ongoing education is essential to ensure that nurses,who are using MEBT,under- stand the principals of MEBT and follow the correct clinical application. There has been evidence,during my clinical practice,of New Zealand nurses using MEBT alongside the current New Zealand wound management techniques and this combi- nation has often led to a misunderstanding about MEBT and the incorrect use of MEBO. As a result the patient outcomes are often substandard compared with the recommen- ded MEBT practice and the resulting potential for the increased quality of life is not fully realized by patient or practitioner. With the acceptance of a changing methodology and its education within the New Zea- land nursing culture,there is significant potential for this wound management concept to be widely used,particularly within the Aged Care and Disabilities sectors within New Zea- land prior to registration of MEBO being granted. With the full registration of the MEBO product,we will be able to use this treatment to its full potential to provide improved patient outcomes and an increase in quality of life for patients within New Zealand. My clinical knowledge of MEBT has helped me to initiate a starting point of MEBT education in New Zealand-currently focused on regional nurse education and community awareness.This will help facilitate the understanding,enthusiasm and commitment for this treatment across New Zealand and enable nurses to gain the necessary support to bring a- bout this change in wound management.