section 1. Systematic assessment of the pregnant woman
section 2. The paper
section 3. External and internal fetal monitoring
section 4. Maternal heart rate patterns
section 5. Uterine contractions
section 6. The baseline
section 7. Baseline variability
section 8. Short-term variability
section 9. Accellerations
section 10. Early decelerations
section 11. Late and spontaneous decelerations
section 12. Variable decelerations and the checkmark pattern
section 13. Prolonged decelerations
section 14. Chronic hypoxia, acute asphyxia
section 15. Strip evaluation and categorization
section 16. NICHD definitions
section 17. Skills validation.