Limitations
This is a small single centre study with a relatively small number of emergency deliveries due to pathological CTG during labour. Furthermore, despite a high rate of SCBU/NICU admission, the majority of these newborns were admitted to SCBU and the total number of NICU admission was low. Further randomised controlled trial to investigate the benefits of prelabour and intrapartum cCTG parameters in predicting labour outcome in both high-risk and low-risk pregnancy are needed but large prospective multicentre studies would be required.