Factores quirúrgicos, emocionales y cuidado integral tras la cirugía del pie diabético

Abstract

Introduction:The approach to a health problem as important, frequent and difficult to solve as thediabetic foot, improves when a multidisciplinary team is constituted, since in general there are severalhealth professionals involved in the diagnosis and treatment of this syndrome.surgeons,endocrinologists, infectious, orthopedists, podiatrists and nurses; from the understanding andcollaboration of all of them, the best way to channel it correctly must emerge. Objective:To analyze thesurgical, emotional and comprehensive care factors after diabetic foot surgery. Material and Method:Bibliographical review with study characteristics of a quantitative, descriptive, cross-sectional approach.A series of journals with articles whose variables were located in patients diagnosed with diabetesmellitus were reviewed. Results:Women 55 and men 45 years, mean age was 54 years. However, theassociation of age with compliance with self-care behaviors in the sample of amputated patients withtype 2 DM was not statistically significant. Likewise, these factors influence adherence to diabetes self-care, specifically with practices related to foot care, related to greater difficulty in understanding theindications. Conclusions:Inadequate compliance with self-care behaviors for the prevention of diabeticfoot is generally observed in the sample of amputated diabetic patients, despite the fact that most of thebehaviors are low-cost and require little effort, showing little follow-up. by health personnel to thispopulation.