Brain injury and fetal heart rate patterns

We don’t actually know which fetal heart rate patterns predict developing brain injury. Why?
We don’t actually know which fetal heart rate patterns predict developing brain injury. Why?
Fetal monitoring guidelines should be evidence-based and assessed to ensure they are fit for purpose.
Which fetal monitoring guideline is the best one to use?
The history of maternity care is littered with stories of half-baked science that becomes embedded in practice and only too late is discovered to be ineffective and challenging to step away from.
When you put people back into clinical guidelines you can see previously invisible assumptions.
Three strikes and you are out! How a guideline meant to make maternity care safer undermined good communication.