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Donor sperm used in treatment

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Written by Andrew Manderson

What this card shows

The Donor sperm used in treatment card shows how many donor sperm devices (straws and vials) were thawed for a recipient's treatment cycle in the selected period. It is a single number.

The card counts devices, not thaws, so one thaw that takes four devices out of storage counts four. Only thaws for treatment are counted. Devices thawed for any other reason, such as a discard, a test thaw or research, are on the Donor sperm taken out of storage card instead.

A device counts as donor sperm when it is recorded as donated. A donor's own samples, frozen for their own future treatment, are not counted.

Reading the card

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

  • The Clinic filter at the top of the dashboard narrows the count to the clinics you choose. Here, clinic means the site the treatment cycle ran at, so a device thawed for a cycle at another clinic is counted there, and a treatment thaw with no cycle linked drops out when a clinic is selected.

  • With no clinic selected, the number matches the total of the Used in treatment slices on the Donor sperm taken out of storage card for the same months. With a clinic selected the two can differ, because that card goes by the site the device was stored at.

  • To see this month by month, use the Donor sperm taken out of storage card. The Months of donor sperm cover card turns the last six complete months of this usage into a rate.

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.

A device is used in treatment when it is thawed with the Thaw button on the sample page (or Thaw in the device's actions menu), with Reason set to Treatment and the recipient's cycle selected in Cycle. The Thawed at date decides which period the thaw falls in, and the cycle's clinic decides which clinic it counts toward. Once saved, the thaw shows these details, with the recipient's cycle as Consumer cycle:

A recipient's cycle appears in the thaw form's Cycle list once the donor is linked to that recipient, or added as a provider on the recipient's cycle. If the list is empty, the form says so and offers the link.

Opening this card

In wawa, open Insights from the sidebar, then go to Standard Reports → Donor → Donor and choose the Sperm tab. The Donor sperm used in treatment card is at the top right of the tab.

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