Proceso de atención de enfermería en diabetes mellitus tipo ii y su relación en el proceso de cicatrización de herida

Abstract

Introduction: Currently, according to data provided by the International Diabetes Federation, there is a progressive increase in the world of type 2 diabetes mellitus, obtaining 4.7% in 1980, which corresponds to 108 million individuals who suffer from it. in 2014 it rose to 8.5%, which concerns 422 million inhabitants. The transcendental cause of the removal of the lower extremities are ulcers and their consequent infection caused by minimal wounds. Annually more than a million individuals are amputated by this circumstance, the prevailing figures are variable between 0.2 and 4.8% and the new annual cases are 46.1%, that is, for every 100,000 inhabitants 936 are affected. The prevalence is between 40 and 70% in direct relation to diabetes due to non-traumatic loss of a limb.