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Ethical Obligation For Restricting The Number Of Embryos Transferred To Women: Combating The Multiple-Birth Epidemic From In Vitro Fertilization, Bradley Van Voorhis, Ginny Ryan
Ethical Obligation For Restricting The Number Of Embryos Transferred To Women: Combating The Multiple-Birth Epidemic From In Vitro Fertilization, Bradley Van Voorhis, Ginny Ryan
Ginny L. Ryan
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is an increasingly effective and popular means of achieving pregnancy for infertile women, but contributes to a growing incidence of risky twin pregnancies. Despite studies demonstrating cost-effective means to achieve IVF pregnancy while strictly limiting the number of embryos transferred, multiple-embryo transfer remains the most common practice in the United States, and twin pregnancies continue to increase. IVF providers resist restricting these practices, arguing that this is counter to principles of procreative liberty, patient and professional autonomy, and free-market economics. We counter that physicians have a professional fiduciary responsibility to weigh issues of nonmaleficence to patients …
Embryo Transfer Practices In The United States: A Survey Of Clinics Registered With The Society For Assisted Reproductive Technology, E. Jungheim, Ginny Ryan, E. Levens, A. Cunningham, G. Macones, K. Carson, A. Beltsos, R. Odem
Embryo Transfer Practices In The United States: A Survey Of Clinics Registered With The Society For Assisted Reproductive Technology, E. Jungheim, Ginny Ryan, E. Levens, A. Cunningham, G. Macones, K. Carson, A. Beltsos, R. Odem
Ginny L. Ryan
OBJECTIVE: To gain a better understanding of factors influencing clinicians' embryo transfer practices. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey. SETTING: Web-based survey conducted in December 2008 of individuals practicing IVF in centers registered with the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART). PATIENT(S): None. INTERVENTION(S): None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Prevalence of clinicians reporting following embryo transfer guidelines recommended by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM), prevalence among these clinicians to deviate from ASRM guidelines in commonly encountered clinical scenarios, and practice patterns related to single embryo transfer. RESULT(S): Six percent of respondents reported following their own, independent guidelines for the number of embryos …