Plano de intervenção na assistência prestada aos portadores de Hipertensão arterial sistêmica de uma Estratégia de Saúde da Família

Abstract

Arterial hypertension (HTN) is a chronic disease of high prevalence in Brazil, considered a serious public health problem. It is a multivariate disease noticeable in the early stages, most often progressive and always dangerous, one of the risk factors for developing cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and kidney diseases. It is defined as value of blood pressure exceeding 140/90 mm Hg for a young adult. The objective of this work develop an Intervention Plan for assistance to patients withhypertension and its complications residents in an area linked FHP Camargo, Ituiutaba / MG..The purpose of this work is to promote control actions of hypertension enrolled in FHP Camargo community, in Ituiutaba, Minas Gerais. Descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted between March to May, 2015, with all patients of the age groups of 15 and over. The sample consisted of 735 patients diagnosedwith hypertension in the Health Unit under this study, from the individual records of patients registered as hypertensive, and a wide review of available data on the subject at the Department of Health and municipal Epidemiology. Information was collected from the sample and analysis was performed by the observational method. Thus, an action plan was drawn up to improve the quality of assistance that is provided by the Family Health Programme at PSF Camargo to patients with hypertension; aiming to maintain the blood pressure levels within the limits recommended by the Health Ministry (MS) and improve the quality of life ofhypertensive patients, avoiding complications such as congestive heart failure, cerebrovascular disease, acute myocardial infarction, hypertensive nephropathy, hypertensive retinopathy and peripheral vascular insufficiency