Fetal heart rate characteristics during the 8 hours prior to delivery have been studied in 200 patients in whom the fetus had evidence of a metabolic acidosis at delivery, and compared to those in 200 patients in whom the fetus had a normal acid-base at delivery. Baseline fetal heart rate moderate bradycardia and tachycardia, decreased baseline variability, and decreased fetal heart rate accelerations are predictors of intrapartum fetal hypoxia with metabolic acidosis. Marked patterns of total decelerations and late decelerations are predictive of intrapartum fetal hypoxia with metabolic acidosis. The probability of fetal metabolic acidosis in the presence of a marked pattern of total decelerations is 25%, and with late decelerations it is 48%, in a population of high-risk pregnancies.

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