How to prevent errors in IVF - what every patient needs to know !

The biggest nightmare for any IVF patient is that the lab may mix up their eggs and sperms with another patients. This has happened in many clinics, and IVF is as prone to errors as any other treatment because it is provided by a host of people working together – doctors, nurses, receptionist, ultrasonographers, lab technicians and embryologists. It requires lots of coordination, and there are few treatment processes for which a team approach is more important than for assisted reproduction. Close, continuous communication is required at many levels to e nsure everything goes as planned.Communication mattersAll of these can produce an environment of controlled chaos that must be managed. Important to the issues of patient safety and the integrity of an ART program are the ways in which a program handles the difficult issue of medical errors. Total freedom from error is only possible in theory. Response to errors, when they occur, reveals the integrity of the program and should be based on established processes.The errors* One, in which the eggs or sperm are mistakenly used with the gametes of another person; or the wrong embryo is transferred to a patient* The second, which leads to the loss of sperm, eggs, or embryos (for example, because of a power failure as a result of which the incubator malfunctions).IVF mix-ups are every patient ’s and doctor’s nightmare, and lots of high profile cases have been described where this has happened. The trouble is that eggs, sperms,...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - Category: Reproduction Medicine Tags: IVF error IVF mistakes Source Type: blogs