Synopsis

The ultimate goal in antenatal care of pregnant women is to have healthy mother and healthy baby. With the modern obstetrics, this objective can be achieved in majority. However, each pregnancy is an individual challenging situation and the things which appear normal can become bad within some hours. The High Risk Cases in Obstetrics book is aimed to guide post graduate students to deal with various emergency or risk prone pregnancies. <br\>  <br/><br/>With the changing lifestyle, increasing maternal age, increasing assisted reproductive techniques use, certain conditions like diabetes, essential hypertension, ectopic pregnancies are on rise. Conversely, even with modernization, the demography of underprivileged, illiterate population is not much improved. These people have lack of access to quality healthcare within reach. So, the problems like anaemia, PIH, sexually transmitted infections are also common in obstetrics practice.