Trigas Incubators

What is an IVF incubator?

IVF incubators are the most crucial equipment in an IVF lab. To allow embryos to grow properly in a lab, the environment must be ideal. These ideal conditions are maintained by the IVF incubator, which regulates temperature, humidity, and the levels of key gases such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen.

What are Trigas incubators?

Earlier versions of IVF incubators were as large as washing machines and featured multiple shelves. These incubators would store embryos from different patients simultaneously, which caused issues. Every time the embryologist needed to work with the embryos, the door would be opened, disrupting the carefully controlled environment inside. This interruption would require the incubator a significant amount of time to restore the ideal conditions.

During this period, the embryos were exposed to less-than-optimal conditions. As multiple patients’ embryos were stored in the same incubator, the door was opened and closed frequently, negatively affecting the embryos. Research has shown that the more often the IVF incubator door was opened, the lower the pregnancy success rates at the IVF center.

Older IVF incubators are sometimes called “single gas” or “CO2 incubators” since they only supply carbon dioxide. The latest IVF incubators, known as “tri-gas” or “low oxygen” incubators, have been shown to support better embryo development and higher pregnancy rates compared to the older CO2 incubators.

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