Ivf during coronavirus pandemic: Who comes first? the poseidon viewpoint

Abstract

COVID-19 is the world’s most massive epidemic known to date. In order to prevent hospital burdens, governments around the world have adopted restrictive containment mea-sures. Such measures have led to a temporary suspension of all non-urgent clinical procedures. With the reduction of con-tagions, in some country there is a slow and gradual restoration of clinical treatments including reproductive medicine. Even with all safety precautions, the risk of infection is real for infertility patients, medical staff, and the community, making it crucial to establish which infertile patients should be prioritized for treatment provision. Indeed, postponing treatments in infertile patients who show a strictly time-de-pendent reproductive prognosis, could definitely affect reproductive chances. In this sense, POSEIDON group propose the use of a specific algorithm that could help clinicians to most optimally manage who need immediate IVF treatment during COVID-19 pandemic.