THE RISK OF COVID-19 CONTAMINATION OF LIQUID NITROGEN
Liquid nitrogen is a low-temperature element widely used in healthcare and industry (including food) due to its particular qualities. Viruses (including Covid-19), bacteria and spores that come into contact with liquid nitrogen (or nitrogen vapours) freeze immediately and contaminate the gas. Liquid nitrogen can be contaminated at any time after the production process, during transportation and at its site of use. When liquid nitrogen is used it can contaminate surfaces, environments, cells, tissues, operators, patients and food.
"For a complete risk-analysis, we believe that we should focus on the real problem: the contamination of liquid nitrogen and nitrogen vapour (LN /NV), which can occur at any step (from manufacturing to final use including transport, storage, distribution and preparation for cryopreservation), rather than on the hypothetical presence of COVID-19 in our gametes and embryos. Airborne contaminants such as COVID-19 can come into contact with LN /NV and remain cryopreserved. [...] The use of contaminated LN /NV risks virus awakening and the contamination of warmed samples, environment, and operators." (Parmegiani and Vajta Human Reproduction 2020).
TARGET:
The Webcast is aimed at Healthcare and Food & Beverage Operators.
PROGRAM:
• Covid in liquid nitrogen: a time bomb
Video Interview by Dr. Keshav Malhotra (Meta India – World Embryology Training Academy India) to Dr. Lodovico Parmegiani (GynePro Medical Italy)
• A risk still underestimated
Appeal to all operators in the liquid nitrogen sector in Human
Reproduction Journal
• Eliminate the risk of Covid-19 in frozen human embryos and oocytes
How the Nterilizer N-Bath medical device works..
GUEST SPEAKER:
Dr. Lodovico Parmegiani
(GynePro Medical Italia)
Dr. Keshav Malhotra
(Meta India – World Embryology Training Academy India)
WEBCAST
Covid in liquid nitrogen: a time bomb
Video Interview with Dr. Keshav Malhotra (Meta India –
World Embryology Training Academy India) and Dr. Lodovico
Parmegiani (GynePro Medical Italy)
A risk still underestimated
Plea to all operators using liquid nitrogen in “Human
Reproduction” Journal
Covid in liquid nitrogen: a time bomb
Video Interview with Dr. Keshav Malhotra (Meta India –
World Embryology Training Academy India) and Dr. Lodovico
Parmegiani (GynePro Medical Italy)
A risk still underestimated
Plea to all operators using liquid nitrogen in “Human
Reproduction” Journal
How to eliminate the risk of Covid-19 in human embryos and oocytes
How to eliminate the risk of Covid-19 in human embryos and oocytes
Sterilized liquid nitrogen: is there still anything to clean at those temperatures?
Science and technology with Lodovico Parmegiani and
Marco Sorrentino, how the NTERILIZER N-Bath
Medical Device works
B HEROES selects NTERILIZER
Video Interview with Dr. Lodovico Parmegiani
