Full Description
This book is a complete guide to setting up an IVF laboratory. Beginning with an introduction to the history and the basics, the following chapters take clinicians through the full set up and management process, from air quality control and cryopreservation facilities, to morphological embryo assessment, sperm processing and selection techniques, to document management systems.
A separate chapter provides an update on semen analysis based on World Health Organisation (WHO) standards and interpretation of results.
Written by an extensive author and editor team from the UK, Europe and the USA, this practical manual is invaluable for embryologists and IVF specialists planning to set up and manage an IVF laboratory successfully.
Key points
Practical guide to setting up and managing an IVF laboratory
Provides step by step process
Includes chapter on semen analysis based on WHO standards and interpretation of results
Extensive author and editor team from UK, Europe and USA
Contents
The IVF Laboratory: A Historical Perspective
What Makes an IVF Laboratory Successful?
Establishment of an ART Clinic: Location, Construction and Design
IVF Culture Systems: An Overview
Air Quality Control in Reproductive Laboratories
Designing and Operating Cryopreservation Facilities
Factors to Consider When Setting Up a PGD Laboratory
Quality Management
Practices and Principles and their Impact on the Function of the Laboratory
Micromanipulation Systems and Operations in an IVF
Morphological Embryo Assessment and Embryo Selection
Adaptation of a Universal Procedure for Cryopreservation of Different Developmental Stages: Is it Conceivable?
Semen Analysis Based on New WHO Standards and Interpretation of Results
Sperm Processing and Selection Techniques in an IVF/ICSI
Molecular Genetics Techniques for Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
Batch In Vitro Fertilization Program
Laboratory Information and Document Management Systems
Future Developments
