Information for Patients

Treatment schedule during the procedure

For Local Patients

Day of admission into the hospital:  12th or 13th day of their menstrual cycle.

Anesthesia:  general intravenous.

Time in the operating room:  40 minutes for Egg Aspiration, and 20 minutes three days later for Embryo Transfer.

Recovery time:  1 to 2 hours after the aspiration; and necessarily 2 hours after the embryo transfer.  

Days of rest
After the aspiration: rest is necessary.
After the embryo transfer: we request complete rest for three days, followed by a few days of being extra careful, frequent resting and the avoidance of tiring activities.

For out-of-town or foreign patients

When patients are from out-of-town or are foreign, and want to go through the Assisted Reproduction procedure, they must carefully schedule their appointments in order to receive the correct treatment. 

While some visits can be carried out by phone, they will have to travel and remain in our State for 15 or 16 days in order to be properly supervised by the Specialist Gynecologist.
Once patients are accepted as candidates, the procedure must be scheduled taking the first day of their menstrual cycle as day 1.  

Patients must travel on day 2 of their cycle in order to be with us on that day and start the ovulation induction process. 

Patients will receive hormonal stimulation for 10 days; the doctor will inform them where to acquire the necessary medications easily.  

During the stimulation period, the Doctor will tell them which days they should come to the Office in order to monitor the process and record the progress of follicular growth.  Likewise, the Doctor will tell them when to have the Estradiol tests done. These are usually done on days 3, 6, and 9 of the menstrual cycle.

On day 9 or 10, patients should visit the Assisted Reproduction Clinic and talk to their Coordinator to receive information on how to register their hospital admission on the day of the procedure.  Likewise, the Coordinator will explain the forms of payment and will schedule the date and hour in which administrative procedures can be carried out and payment made so that everything will be ready when they need to be admitted into the Hospital.

Ideally, day 10 or 11 would be chosen to carry out these procedures.

Ideally, day 12 or 13 would be chosen to perform the follicular aspiration.  However, this may vary due to difficulties in the stimulation.

We can know if the egg was fertilized one day after the aspiration.  The division and quality of the resulting embryos will be verified one day later.  

If it was possible to perform the follicular aspiration on day 12 or 13, the embryo transfer will be performed on day 15 or 16.   

Complete rest is required after the embryo transfer procedure.  Patients will be able to go home on the next day.  

Once at home, they must avoid heavy activities or those that require effort.  Patients must follow the doctor’s instructions and remain in continuous contact with him until results are known.