What are the costs for keeping embryos in frozen storage?
The costs to Pacific Fertility Center are significant. Most of the cost is accounted for by the manpower required to maintain the tanks. Embryologists receive special training in handling liquid nitrogen and maintaining the frozen embryo bank. Although nitrogen liquid is relatively stable, it can cause severe frostbite, rapid suffocation and death if mishandled. We even have a special permit from the city just to have the liquid in the building and the emergency services have to be kept informed of our activities. We buy several hundred liters of nitrogen each week to keep the tanks filled and to use for freezing of new embryos. Tanks are serviced, replaced and maintained according to a strict schedule and alarm systems are also maintained to a very high standard. Ask any embryologist, and they’ll tell you that the real cost is in having to race to the lab at 4.00 am on a Saturday morning only to find a false alarm. Back to the Top Would the storage tanks survive a major earthquake or
The costs to Pacific Fertility Center are significant. Most of the cost is accounted for by the manpower required to maintain the tanks. Embryologists receive special training in handling liquid nitrogen and maintaining the frozen embryo bank. Although nitrogen liquid is relatively stable, it can cause severe frostbite, rapid suffocation and death if mishandled. We even have a special permit from the city just to have the liquid in the building and the emergency services have to be kept informed of our activities. We buy several hundred liters of nitrogen each week to keep the tanks filled and to use for freezing of new embryos. Tanks are serviced, replaced and maintained according to a strict schedule and alarm systems are also maintained to a very high standard. Ask any embryologist, and they’ll tell you that the real cost is in having to race to the lab at 4.00 am on a Saturday morning only to find a false alarm.
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