Welcome to the latest episode of I3 with Giles Palmer in conversation with Dr Kathryn C. Worrilow who is the Founder and CEO, LifeAire Systems in what is a fascinating discussion about the developments within the lab environment and the time it has taken for these types of changes to be implemented.
What was discussed:
- Kathryn talking about how she got into the world of embryology
- Her previous work with co-culture
- When she first saw the importance of air quality - literature to identify the relationship between air quality and the culture of the human embryo.
- Realisation when leaving lab and saw that there of tarmac happening outside the lab and how it was linked to air quality in the lab
- Started to monitor outside activity to see the drops in cellular and clinical outcomes.
- 2017 Cairo Consensus -discussing clean room concepts
- Research launched once they knew the common VOC’s to look at how they are impacting the embryo
- RBM online publication on the ‘mode’ of publication
- Biggest threats to a lab
- Important for embryologists to understand the toxic pathogens that are outside eg. off-gas equipment
- Improvements on the Cairo consensus? Discussion of how much we’ve learnt since then
- Which VOC’s are most common in IVF labs and where they come from, materials which should and shouldn’t be used
- How their engineers work - look at ‘asbuilt drawings’ to start to find cubic volumes of air - they want to protect every molecule in that space
- How covid impacted their business - who they could help
Make sure you keep an eye on the upcoming events at IVFMeeting.com for the follow up to this conversation
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