SUMMARY: FIV Marbella IVF lab has an advanced device for embryo development monitoring. It is called Time–Lapse multi–chamber incubator. The installed software allows synchronous running multiple PRO apps, recording the streaming video–content, depicting high–resolution studio–quality images with true–tone technology every moment, thus making monitoring of the embryo development in a real time frame easier than ever.
The Time–Lapse multi–chamber incubator makes it possible to “manage” the embryos that are temporarily launched inside to grow, thus improves their follow–up from fertilization event to actual embryo transfer to the woman’s uterus. Time–Lapse incubator is a safe “space” for the embryos as it synchronizes the optimal temperature, the balanced flow of gas, and ideal osmolality levels.
Furthermore, Time–Lapse multi–chamber incubator has a positive effect on every embryo placed for further growth there and simplifies the choice of the best–quality blastocyst from the embryonic cohort generated through ICSI technique. Plus, the patients are given video content that shows the development of their embryos.
More details about Time–Lapse multi–chamber incubator in FIV Marbella.
Assisted reproduction is advancing by leaps and bounds, especially in the technological field, since clinics don’t cease to incorporate new elements to their laboratories to achieve the ultimate goal pursued: A HEALTHY LIVE BIRTH. One of the most outstanding advances in recent years in this regard are the incubators with Time-Lapse technology, like the one that has recently been installed in FIV Marbella’s IVF laboratory, which incorporates a camera that allows us to observe the development of embryos inside from the moment of fertilization, without having to remove them from the incubator for evaluation.
The advantages of these incubators over conventional ones are remarkable since their sophisticated image capture system allows to capture morphology changes that with conventional incubators could go unnoticed. The Time-Lapse incubator from FIV Marbella has several compartments physically separated in which the embryos are introduced, each with a camera that captures images of them every 5 minutes. The incubator has software that converts all those images into a video, through which patients can see the early days of development of their embryos concentrated in a few minutes. Thanks to this system, FIV Marbella’s embryologists can have a large amount of information on those embryos that are in cultivation in the laboratory, which allows them to optimize the selection of them, meaning they having more elements of judgment to then choose to transfer the one that has more possibilities of implantation.
In this way, the culture until blastocyst stage of embryos (technique that is always used in FIV Marbella to be able to select the best embryos to transfer to the patient), occurs under stable conditions of temperature and humidity, C02 and low concentration of oxygen, as it would happen under normal conditions in a woman's body. The software of the new FIV Marbella incubator shows these and other parameters, fundamental to monitor that the culture conditions of the embryos are optimal.
And for which patients would the use of these latest generation incubators be indicated? In general, any patient receiving IVF can use this type of incubator, but it is especially useful in those cases of several previous failed procedures and those who only wish to transfer a single embryo.