Proceso de atención de enfermería en paciente con lupus eritematoso sistemático en hospital teofilo dávila

Abstract

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem inflammatory pathology of unknown cause, characterized by the production of autoantibodies and a great clinical variability, related to genetic and environmental factors, affecting organs, tissues and cells, with cutaneous, articular, hematological clinical manifestations , neuropsychiatric, gastrointestinal, renal, pulmonary, and cardiac. Knowing that the disease occurs more frequently in women of childbearing age, it is attributed as the main factor to female hormones. In the present work we have as main objective to apply the process of nursing care in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus through the theory of the deficit of self-care of Dorothea Orem to maintain their state of health. The problem found in this analysis is based on a clinical case found in the Teófilo Dávila General Hospital of an 18-year-old patient who entered the emergency area in November 2018 with edematization of lower limbs due to an alleged insect bite in the left foot that Through examinations, evaluating results with clinical evolution, doctors gave a definitive diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, iron deficiency anemia and polycystic ovaries, with approximately 9 months of evolution. This research is qualitative, which through the collection of information based on documentation and observation of characteristics of the unit of analysis with which we help each other to provide history more easily.