There is currently no standard national approach to the management of category II fetal
heart rate (FHR) patterns, yet such patterns occur in the majority of fetuses in labor. Under
such circumstances, it would be difficult to demonstrate the clinical efficacy of FHR
monitoring even if this technique had immense intrinsic value, since there has never been a
standard hypothesis to test dealing with interpretation and management of these abnormal
patterns. We present an algorithm for the management of category II FHR patterns that …