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

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