Prevenção do pé diabético: ações desenvolvidas pelas equipes de Saúde da Família

Abstract

Diabetic foot is the term used to characterize the injury that occurs on the feet of people with diabetes, resulting from peripheral neuropathy, vascular disease peripheral infections. It consists of a serious complication diabetes mellitus, because if untreated, can evolve to gangrene and amputations. People with diabetes have 15 times higher risk of amputation than non-diabetics. These figures betray a very high cost to the country expenditure on medical care.

Care to prevent this complication is relatively simple, but requires implementation of strategies diabetes education that consider the individual in all its diversity and complexity. The teams family health act in the face of diabetes, this study aims to evaluate the actions of prevention of diabetic foot developed by these teams.

To achieve this goal was made a review bibliographic data bases and SCIELO LILACS, which indicates a specific section, with articles made available in its entirety.

After review, it was noticed that despite the most articles address the importance of actions prevention of this complication in people with diabetes mellitus, was not found scientific equipment, which contemplating such actions developed by teams Family Health. This indicates that it is necessary further studies to identify the efficiency of actions prevention of diabetic foot.