COVID-19 risk assessment and safety management operational guidelines for IVF center reopening.

Purpose: To promote nationwide dissemination and implementation of COVID-19 Risk Assessment and Safety Management Operational Guidelines, drawn up by SAMeR Task Force in ART centers in Argentina. Our objective is to prevent and mitigate the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 at an institutional level, while reducing the risk of infection among both physicians and patients in the context of a critical scenario in the local and Latin American healthcare system.

Methods: SAMeR Executive Committee set up a crisis committee which was made up of specialists in reproductive medicine, embryology, and healthcare management.

[Current perceptions and decisions of patients about cryopreserved embryos in Argentina].

Introduction: Worldwide there is an increase in the number of assisted reproduction treatments. The developments in culture media and drugs, associated with the occurrence of rapid freezing or vitrification techniques has improved the procedures encouraging transfers of a single embryo per cycle. This generates a greater number of viable surplus embryos.

Abandoned frozen embryos in Argentina: a committee opinion.

Argentina, like many other countries in the region, faces the dilemma of what to do with the increasing accumulation of frozen embryos, which are often abandoned. This report aims to address the issue of abandoned frozen embryos, following the main concerns: 1) when is an embryo considered abandoned, according to regulatory documents; 2) how can the number of cryopreserved abandoned embryos be decreased; and 3) what are the current available options for discarding these abandoned embryos. Issues concerning the fate of abandoned embryos call for a revision of the technical aspects, as well as the symbolic aspects associated with the embryos and their options for discarding.

Physicians and patients' motivations to perform elective single or double-embryo transfers: A nationwide survey.

Objectives: To evaluate motivations to perform an elective single embryo transfer (e-SET).

Methods: Cross-sectional surveys to reproductive medicine specialists and to infertile patients undergoing assisted reproductive treatments.

Results: In the physician's survey (n = 278), we found that the main reasons for not offering e-SET were the physicians' belief that patients prefer optimizing the pregnancy rates regardless of the potential complications (57.