P –161 Is enough the staff in your lab?

AbstractStudy questionMust be all the activity made in in vitro fertilization (IVF) laboratories keep in mind to size its staff?Summary answerTo create a staff calculator based on number of cycles carry on, assisted reproduction techniques, quality controls, administration management, weekend duties, labour regulations and holidays.What is known alreadyIn a bibliographic search about staff in human reproduction labs there is no mention about de number of embryologists recommended for every cycle done. Only that it will be according to the workload. Other guidelines establish that every embryologist could assume 150 IVF cycles/year. However, here is a downward tendency in the work that an embryologist can assume. Alikani established a maximum of 100 cycles/year for every embryologist (Alikani et al, 2014).Study design, size, durationSeven senior embryologists working in different IVF centres, three public and 4 privates, take part lead in this Multicentre study during 2019 and 2020. We made a survey to create a calculator for staff using the mean time spent in every lab by each embryologist of the centre to do any IVF procedure and measured three times each one.Participants/materials, setting, methodsDifferent lab procedures and activities related with quality control, time spent to do them, and witnessing were included in the survey. For the calculations it was considered an embryologist with a full-time contract working 1744  hours / year according to current labour agreem...
Source: Human Reproduction - Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: research