TY - CHAP AU - Leonel García Benavides AU - Diego Hernández Molina AU - Jessica L. Barajas Vega AU - Sylvia E. Totsuka Sutton AU - Fernando Grover Paéz AU - Francisco J. Hernández Mora AU - Ernesto J. Ramírez Lizardo AU - Sara Pascoe Gonzalez AU - David Cardona Müller AU - Ernesto G. Cardona Muñoz ED - Hassan Salah Abduljabbar Y1 - 2017-12-20 PY - 2017 T1 - Pharmacological Opportunities for Prevention of Preeclampsia N2 - Obstetrics is the field that deals with the well-being of the pregnant women as well as the labor and delivery of a healthy baby. Obstetricians work closely as neonatologists who deal with the care of the newborn baby to reduce chances of morbidity and mortality. The objective of obstetrics is to deal with diagnosis and treatment of pregnancy, antenatal care, and prevention of complication, collaborating with midwives to monitor pregnant women in labor, facilitating delivery and performing assisted procedures if needed as episiotomy, forceps delivery, vacuum extraction, and Cesarean section if indicated. BT - Obstetrics SP - Ch. 6 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.70164 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.70164 SN - 978-953-51-3704-7 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-05-10 ER -