MANEJO DAS ÚLCERAS DO PÉ DIABÉTICO NO CONTEXTO DA ATENÇÃO PRIMÁRIA À SAÚDE (APS): UMA REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus is considered a chronic disease that is very recurrent in communities, whose ulcers in the lower limbs are characterized as a common complication, of high cost and prolonged treatment. Family Health Strategy professionals are often managing this complication in their territories, through specific care, which includes everything from preventive aspects to topical treatment and educational actions for self-care. Thus, in order to identify the main forms of management of diabetic foot ulcers in the context of Primary Health Care (PHC), through the professionals of the Family Health Strategy, an integrative literature review was carried out, with data collected through scientific articles by searching the database Scielo e (Scientific Electronic Library Online) and BVS. The results showed that the main form of management concerns preventive aspects, through educational actions and guidance on self-care, whose success is related to the recurrence of such practices. With regard to early diagnosis and screening methods, there was a deficit in the clinical evaluation actions by the family health teams and, still, little commitment regarding the patients' self-care, whose committed actions of the PHC professionals are essential to change this scenery.