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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