Happy spring (I am writing this as the snow falls) from the Education Committee of AETA. Although I worked the two months of February and March, they seem a blur; influenza and the accompanying ailments following an immunosuppressive virus made me unenthusiastic about getting after the update for the newsletter. As of this date, we have started getting busy with spring work and setting up donors and recipients for show season, and so on. A few things have crossed my mind regarding ET that I will lay out.
A Closer Look
“THE VANGUARD OF THE EMBRYO TRANSFER INDUSTRY”
My IVF incubator is late….now what?
By Jon Schmidt (Trans Ova Genetics)
An unfortunate reality with IVF is the occasional need to utilize commercial shipping companies in the transportation of oocytes to and embryos from the IVF lab. Many of us who work with IVF shipments have experienced a delayed, lost, or cold incubator. These are unfortunate events that can be catastrophic to results and end in frustrated lab staff, transfer teams, and clients. Below are a few suggestions on how to handle incubators that are compromised in transit while embryos are going back to the practitioner or client’s farm.
d0 = OPU day
d1 = fertilization day
d7 = normal transfer day
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