This book provides readers up-to-date information on various aspects affecting assisted reproduction laboratories and corresponding management approaches, based on latest literatures, clinical practice, and international consensus. Key points of laboratory environment, laboratory operations and quality control measures are presented in details. Last but not least, ethical issues and countermeasures of assisted reproductive technology are discussed. It will be a practical and reader-friendly resource to help reproductive medicine practitioners establish a disciplined risk and control system for assisted reproduction laboratories and techniques.
Introduction of Quality Control and Risk Management in IVF
Laboratory.- Temperature Control in IVF Culture System.- Gas Supplies of
Incubators, Air Quality and Volatile Organic Compounds Management of
Laboratory Environment.- Light of Microscopes and Laboratory
Environment.- Osmolality of Culture Media.- Hydrogen Ion Concentration Index
of Culture Media.- Microbial Contamination of Culture Media.- Morphological
Evaluation of Cleavage-stage Embryos and Blastocysts.- Quality Control and
Risk Management of Gamete and Embryo Cryopreservation.- Quality Management of
Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection.- Trophectoderm Biopsy .- Embryo Transfer.
Da Li is a Professor at Center of Reproductive Medicine, Shengjing Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China. Yingzhuo Gao is an Associate Professor at the same department of Professor Li.