Cooper Surgical: Clinical Awareness Quiz

1. What is the first step of initial investigation for a couple that is carried out in a fertility clinic?

2. What is the minimum concentration of sperms required for a sample to be called normal as per WHO?

3. Post initial investigations at a fertility clinic, if the case is such that the female partner is fertile with no apparent problems and the male partner has poor sperms, what treatment is the fertility doctor likely going to offer the couple?

4. How many hours post the HCG trigger is the ovum pick-up done?

5. What are the two methods of semen preparation and which out of the two is more widely used and why?

6. Which procedure out of IVF/ICSI requires denudation of oocytes?

7. PICSI or sperm slow products are based on the ability of mature sperm to bind to which enzyme?

8. What are the two different culture media types? Which is more predominantly used?

9. Name three factors that can affect embryo development in an IVF lab.

10. Which Incubator system is better for culture of embryos and why?

11. When you see three PNs (pronuclei) in a zygote while performing fertilisation check, what can be the most common reason for that?

12. If on the day of transfer (Day 5), a patient has both, a cavitated blastocyst and an expanded blastocyst, which one should be given a preference and why?