Background: Current methods for assessing perinatal hypoxic conditions did not improve infant outcomes. Various waveform-based and interval-based ECG markers have been suggested, but not directly compared. We compare performance of ECG markers in a standardized ovine model for fetal hypoxia.
Methods: Sixty-nine fetal sheep of 0.7 gestation had ECG recorded 4 h before, during, and 4 h after a 25-min period of umbilical cord occlusion (UCO), leading to severe hypoxia. Various ECG markers were calculated, among which were heart rate (HR), HR-corrected ventricular depolarization/repolarization interval (QTc), and ST-segment analysis (STAN) episodic and baseline rise markers, analogue to clinical STAN device alarms. Performance of interval- and waveform-based ECG markers was assessed by correlating predicted and actual hypoxic/normoxic state.
Results: Of the markers studied, HR and QTc demonstrated high sensitivity (≥86%), specificity (≥96%), and positive predictive value (PPV) (≥86%) and detected hypoxia in ≥90% of fetuses at 4 min after UCO. In contrast, STAN episodic and baseline rise markers displayed low sensitivity (≤20%) and could not detect severe fetal hypoxia in 65 and 28% of the animals, respectively.
Conclusion: Interval-based HR and QTc markers could assess the presence of severe hypoxia. Waveform-based STAN episodic and baseline rise markers were ineffective as markers for hypoxia.
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