Intrapartum foetal heart rate decelerations are physiological adaptations to hypoxia: a critical appraisal of the recent evidence

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intrapartum FHR monitoring.As a result, "normal" FHR patterns appear to be strongly associated with positive outcomes, while "abnormal" FHR patterns are weakly associated with negative outcomes [4].The main CTG feature that misleads physicians and midwives is the FHR deceleration; many experts have studied the biological mechanisms underlying decelerations, thus leading to three different known "classical" patterns of FHR deceleration: early, late and variable [5].