CARACTERIZACIÓN DE RIESGOS OBSTÉTRICOS EN LAS GESTANTES DEL CENTRO DE SALUD PICOAZÁ. PORTOVIEJO

Abstract

The present titling work called characterization of obstetric risks in pregnant women at the Picoazá - Portoviejo Health Center, where obstetric risks are understood as those external or intrinsic factors to the woman that can cause some complication during pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium or that may alter in some way the normal development or survival of the product, for which it was considered as a general objective to analyze the main clinical-epidemiological characteristics of pregnant women who were treated at the Picoazá - Portoviejo Health Center during the year 2020, we worked with a descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional methodology, where the documentary review was carried out consisting of 40 medical records of pregnant women. Through the elaboration of the operationalization of the variables, a data form was developed for the collection of information, which allowed us to know that the vast majority are pregnant adolescents from 12 to 15 years of age, being single mothers, they only have a level of primary education. , live in rural areas, do not comply with prenatal controls according to the weeks of gestation, few have been administered the tetanus vaccine, in addition, pregnant women have presented hypertensive disorders such as preeclampsia, with a low level of comorbidity indicating infections of urinary tract and arterial hypertension, situations that gave way to pregnant women presenting some type of obstetric risk, standing out between low and high.