During the pandemic, medicine has had to adapt to avoid the influx of people in areas that are potentially dangerous to their health. When COVID paralyzed everything, Juana Crespo’s medical team had an idea that would allow the patient not to have to go to hospitals, thus avoiding the possibility of catching COVID trying to find a center where to have an ultrasound.
That idea materialized in a vaginal probe with which women can self-perform an ultrasound, without leaving home. “I don’t have the ultrasound machine but I see the images”, explained the scientist.
In a simple way, patients self-examine and the clinic monitors the images. “Live, which we direct, or deferred: we have the image and we are doing the follicular measurements, being able to stop the image or the recording at the time that suits us to make the measurement that we consider in the right place”, he indicated.
An innovative system that facilitates conciliation and access to assisted reproduction treatments. A premise that has also been flagged in the clinic of Dr. García-Fauras, scientific director of the Marqués Institute of Barcelona, with a kit for self-freezing semen samples.
“During 2020, there were more than 50 requests and more than 20 samples were frozen that have already been used to carry out treatments”, indicated the doctor, who has assured that the requests have not stopped increasing in recent months, due to safety and efficacy.
“The quality of the semen sample frozen by the patient himself […] Y without having to have knowledge of biology or reproductive medicine […] the quality of this frozen and thawed semen sample was exactly the same,” he says.
According to the Spanish Fertility Society, just before the pandemic, in 2019, more than 180,000 treatments were carried out fertility in Spain. Figures that, according to experts, could increase thanks to telemedicine techniques like these, which reduce the barriers of time and distance.
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