[Cardiotocographic diagnosis in pregnancy (author's transl)]

A diagnostic programme has been recommended for cardiotocography in pregnancy. It is designed to non-stress testing and includes the oxytocin exposure test for better assessment of both oscillations and accelerations, depending on foetal movement, without or following arousal stimulus. -- Up to 95 per cent of all findings are obtained from non-stress or negative oxytocin exposure tests which are highly dependable diagnostic indicators to sufficient oxygen supply to the foetus. A pathological oxytocin exposure result would call for differentiated selection of those frequency images which do support suspicion of hypoxia, but these account only to something between two and five per cent among all high-risk pregnancies under conditions of selective cardiotocography.