[Clinical experience obtained from antepartal CTG evaluation according to Fischer, Hammacher, Hodr and Kubli. First communication: Fischer score (author's transl)].

The score proposed by Fischer and co-workers was used in evaluating 1,239 antepartal cardiotocograms which had been recorded from the same number of pregnant women. The cardiotocograms of 966 patients (78.0 per cent) were without pathological findings (between eight and ten scores on the condition index), while prepathological suspicion was recordable from 141 (11.4 per cent) (between five and seven scores), and pathological conditions from 132 (10.7 per cent) (between four and zero scores). Conditions of the newborn were correctly predicted in 913 cases (73.8 per cent), erroneously positive in 120 cases (9.7 per cent), and erroneously negative in 204 cases (16.5 per cent).