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Donor oocytes taken out of storage

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Written by Andrew Manderson

What this card shows

The Donor oocytes taken out of storage card is a stacked bar chart of the donor oocyte devices (cryotops and other devices) thawed in each month, split by why they were thawed.

Each bar is one month. The slices are:

  • Used in treatment: thawed for a recipient's treatment cycle. This slice is what your recipients actually received.

  • Discarded: discarded, with Discard in the device's actions menu (which opens the thaw form with Reason Discard).

  • Thawed for biopsy: thawed for a biopsy and refreeze.

  • Research: thawed for research.

  • Test thaw: thawed as a test.

  • Other or not recorded: thawed for training, for another reason, or with no reason recorded.

The full height of a bar is everything that left storage by thawing that month, which is what drives how fast your stock goes down. The card counts devices, not thaws, so one thaw that takes four devices out of storage counts four.

A device counts as donor oocytes when it is recorded as donated. A donor's own samples, frozen for their own future treatment, are not counted. Devices shipped to another clinic are not on this card; they show as a fall in the stock line of the Donor oocytes in stock over time, with projection card next to it.

Reading the card

  • Hover over a slice to see the month, the reason and the number of devices.

  • The dashboard's Date filter sets the months shown, by the date of the thaw. By default it shows the last 12 months, including the current month so far.

  • The Clinic filter at the top of the dashboard narrows the chart to the clinics you choose. Here, clinic means the site the storage tank belongs to, so devices discarded outside a treatment cycle are still counted at the clinic that stored them.

  • A month with no thaws has no bar.

Where this data comes from

The card reads the thaw records in wawa. A device counts as donated when, on the sample's storage devices, its Freeze purpose or Use status is set to a donation value: Donation or Known donation for the freeze purpose, Donation or Donated to bank for the use status.

Devices are thawed with the Thaw button on the sample page, or Thaw or Discard in a device's actions menu. All three open the same thaw form. On the thaw form, the Reason decides the slice (Treatment, Discard, Biopsy & refreeze, Research, Test thaw, Training or Other) and the Thawed at date decides the month. The devices ticked in the table at the bottom of the form are the ones counted. Once saved, the thaw lists them under Sample breakdown:

If a thaw is undone with Undo Thaw (or a discard with Undo Discard) in the device's actions menu, the device goes back into storage and drops off this card.

Opening this card

In wawa, open Insights from the sidebar, then go to Standard Reports → Donor → Donor and choose the Oocytes tab. The Donor oocytes taken out of storage card is on the right, next to Donor oocytes in stock over time, with projection.

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