Rol de enfermería en paciente con neuropatía diabética basado en el modelo de Lydia Hall

Abstract

Introduction: Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is established worldwide as one of the pathologies that have a great impact on the population, it is a progressive disease in which pancreatic β cells are affected, resulting in resistance to insulin and a state of chronic hyperglycemia; Inadequate control of diabetes mellitus can easily trigger a series of complications, Diabetic Neuropathy being one of the main ones, which is characterized by a set of signs and symptoms that affect the peripheral and autonomic nervous system of the patient.At the Latin American level, reports of diabetic neuropathy are scarce and variable, between countries such as Argentina with 37%, Mexico with 69% (7), Brazil with 22%, in a hospital in Lima-Peru it was identified that 15 % of hospitalizations in diabetic patients were closely associated with peripheral neuropathy.In Ecuador, 331 patients with a diagnosis of Diabetes mellitus treated at the IESS José Carrasco Arteaga hospital in the city of Cuenca, analyzing data from March to December 2016, who underwent a Diabetic Neuropathy screening, with the result that the The prevalence of Diabetic Neuropathy of the lower limbs was 29.9%, with the male sex being the most affected with 31.4%, and predominating in adults older than 84 years with 58.3%.