C.A. had worked as a technologist in the IVF lab at University Medical Center for 4 years. Her department was the Advanced Reproductive Technology Program. Although her work was primarily in the laboratory, she followed up each patient through all five phases of the IVF and embryo transfer treatment cycle: follicular development, aspiration of the preovulatory follicles, sperm preparation, IVF, and embryo transfer. Her department does both GIFT (gamete intrafallopian transfer) and ZIFT (zygote intrafallopian transfer) procedures.

While the female patient is in surgery having an ultrasound-guided transvaginal oocyte retrieval, C.A. examines the recently donated sperm for motility and quantity. She prepares to inoculate the sample into the cytoplasm of the ova as soon as she receives the cells from the OR. After inoculation, she places the sterile Petri dish with the fertilized oocytes into an incubator until they are ready to be introduced into the female patient.

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