Medical Arrangement Strategies for Infertility Female Patients during COVID-19 Mini-Outbreak

Abstract

Over the past two years, COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented health emergency. All countries have taken theirown measures to mitigate the spread of the virus in the first and subsequent mini-outbreaks of infection. In view of thecurrent situation of small outbreaks of COVID-19, guidelines on epidemic prevention should be developed specificallyfor reproductive medical centers. It is necessary to establish a dynamic patient assessment and management systemto identify patients who need priority fertility treatment during epidemic control. Female Patients were assignedas grade A and required hospitalization in the inpatient ward after egg retrieval. Patients who underwent controlledovarian stimulation were classified as grade B, and they can choose to be hospitalizedat home according to their ownconvenience. Patients undergoing frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycle or planned downregulation with gonadotropinreleasinghormone agonists were defined as grade C, who could continue the assisted reproductive technology (ART)treatment cycle with negative COVID-19 nucleic acid test and there was no fever or respiratory symptoms. This briefcomment summarizes the working procedure of the reproductive medical center in the first hospital of Lanzhou Universityin China to minimize the probability of hospital infection and ensure the safe conduct of assisted reproductivetechnology therapy.

Keywords

• assisted reproductive technology
• covid-19
• ovarian hyperstimulation