WRONG EMBRYOS TRANSFERRED!!! Why It Should Never Happen
February 05, 2010
It was all over the news in 2009 that in a tragic mix-up, a patient revealed that the fertility clinic where she underwent in vitro fertilization (IVF) transferred another couple's embryos into her uterus by mistake … and she recently delivered the baby!!! With proper procedural steps and safeguards at a fertility clinic’s embryology lab, that should NEVER happen! The following discussion about proper Embryology standard operating procedures outlines why a couple should never get the wrong embryos… if these IVF safeguards are followed properly.