A Practical Guide to Setting up an IVF Lab, Embryo Culture Systems and Running the Unit

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

1. The IVF Laboratory: A Historical Perspective
2. What Makes an IVF Laboratory Successful?
3. Establishment of an ART Clinic: Location, Construction and Design
4. IVF Culture Systems: An Overview
5. Air Quality Control in Reproductive Laboratories
6. Designing and Operating Cryopreservation Facilities
7. Factors to Consider When Setting Up a PGD Laboratory
8. Quality Management
9. Practices and Principles and their Impact on the Function of the Laboratory
10. Micromanipulation Systems and Operations in an IVF
11. Morphological Embryo Assessment and Embryo Selection
12. Adaptation of a Universal Procedure for Cryopreservation of Different Developmental Stages: Is it Conceivable?
13. Semen Analysis Based on New WHO Standards and Interpretation of Results
14. Sperm Processing and Selection Techniques in an IVF/ICSI
15. Molecular Genetics Techniques for Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
16. Batch In Vitro Fertilization Program
17. Laboratory Information and Document Management Systems
18. Future Developments

Alex C Varghese PhD
Montreal Reproductive Centre, Canada; Founder, LifeInvitro Ltd, Nottingham, UK

Peter Sjöblom PhD
Unit Manager, Nottingham University Research and Treatment Unit in Reproduction (NURTURE), Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK

K Jayaprakasan MD DNB MRCOG PhD
Subspecialist and Honorary Associate Professor in Reproductive Medicine and Surgery, Consultant Gynaecologist, Royal Derby Hospital and NURTURE, University of Nottingham, UK