Introduction
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In Uganda, neonatal mortality is 19 deaths per 1000 live births [Therefore, the prospect of predicting neonatal outcomes in the intrapartum period using a maternal sample is exciting. Maternal samples would make it easier to measure lactate at the bedside and institute timely interventions such as neonatal resuscitation and specialist consultations if required. Studies from both high and low resource settings have reported the association between fetal scalp and umbilical blood lactate with perinatal mortality [In this study, we hypothesized that maternal lactate is a good predictor of perinatal mortality and aimed to compare maternal and umbilical blood lactate as predictors of perinatal death.