Surgical, emotional factors and comprehensive care after diabetic foot surgery

Abstract

Introduction: The approach to a health problem as important, frequent and difficult to solve as the diabetic foot, improves when a multidisciplinary team is constituted, since in general there are several health professionals involved in the diagnosis and treatment of this syndrome. surgeons, endocrinologists, infectious, orthopedists, podiatrists and nurses; from the understanding and collaboration of all of them, the best way to channel it correctly must emerge. Objective: To analyze the surgical, 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 diabetes mellitus were reviewed. Results: Women 55 and men 45 years, mean age was 54 years. However, the association of age with compliance with self-care behaviors in the sample of amputated patients with type 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 the indications. Conclusions: Inadequate compliance with self-care behaviors for the prevention of diabetic foot is generally observed in the sample of amputated diabetic patients, despite the fact that most of the behaviors are low-cost and require little effort, showing little follow-up. by health personnel to this population.