Assisted Reproductive Technologies Quality and Safety - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1842142313 ISBN 13: 9781842142318

Publisher: CRC Press, 2003

Synopsis

Worldwide, approximately 500,000 in vitro fertilization cycles are performed every year. Although the best possible result is a healthy child, the technology carries a number of varying risks and complications leading to a trade-off between the efficacy of these treatments and their quality and safety. Drawing on contributions from international experts with academic and clinical backgrounds, Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Quality and Safety presents an analysis of the medical risks and complications involved in reproductive medicine.

Putting the intricacies of reproductive health in the spotlight, the book describes side-effects, risks, and complications related to ART treatments. It discusses ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, demonstrates the impact of judicious elective single embryo transfer, and focuses heavily on multiple pregnancy as the major risk factor of ART. The editors highlight the relatively less likely, but important risks of oncogenic complications, bleeding at the time of ovum retrieval, and the even smaller but still existing risk for maternal mortality. They include discussions of non-medical factors that can have a major impact on people's lives such as psychological, sexual, financial, moral, ethical, and philosophical dilemmas.

In today's litigious climate, modern management of any clinic is all about minimizing risks and complications. Thoroughly addressing quality and safety issues in ART, this book provides succinct, up-to-date information on quality care in reproductive medicine.

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About the Author

Jan Gerris is Professor of Gynecology and Sector Chairman of the Sector Man-Woman-Child at University Hospital Ghent, Belgium.

Gynecologue-obstetricien, Francois Olivennes a travaille dans le service du Professeur Rene Frydman a l'hopital Antoine Beclere. En 2002, il a pris la direction de l'unite de Medecine de la reproduction a l'hopital Cochin. Depuis 2006, il exerce en liberal au sein du centre de FIV Eylau-La Muette.

G. David Adamson is Adjunct Clinical Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor at University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, USA.

Jan Gerris is Professor of Gynecology and Sector Chairman of the Sector Man-Woman-Child at University Hospital Ghent, Belgium.

Gynecologue-obstetricien, Francois Olivennes a travaille dans le service du Professeur Rene Frydman a l'hopital Antoine Beclere. En 2002, il a pris la direction de l'unite de Medecine de la reproduction a l'hopital Cochin. Depuis 2006, il exerce en liberal au sein du centre de FIV Eylau-La Muette.

G. David Adamson is Adjunct Clinical Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and Associate Clinical Professor at University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1842142313
• ISBN 13: 9781842142318
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Gerris Jan, Olivennes François, De Sutter Petra