MIRI® M Multi-room IVF Incubator
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Esco Medical
ESCO MIRI® M Multiroom IVF Incubator
The device further addresses several critical pain points that IVF laboratories encounter daily — including the risk of embryo or sample mix-up, limited incubation capacity, and challenges in maintaining a stable culture environment. Designed with both safety and scalability in mind, the MIRI® M ensures complete traceability and transparency through its integrated digital patient identification system and individual display screens on each chamber. This setup allows embryologists to monitor samples confidently, minimizing the possibility of human error and ensuring full compliance with traceability standards and patient data security. Furthermore, the incubator’s modular design offers exceptional flexibility, enabling laboratories to expand from a few chambers to as many as 18 according to their evolving workflow and patient load. This scalability not only optimizes valuable bench space but also ensures consistent performance across multiple culture environments within the same footprint. Each chamber operates independently, preventing cross-contamination and ensuring that a single door opening does not affect the rest of the embryos in culture.
In IVF laboratories, the movement of samples from the incubator to the processing or procedure area often disrupts the optimal growth environment due to changes in gas or temperature. The MIRI® M solves this with its portable chamber design—each chamber remains pre-conditioned and can disconnect from the docking station for up to 30 minutes while preserving stability—minimizing shock to embryos and enabling safer transport or examination without exposing other samples to risk.
A common challenge in high-throughput labs is repeated door openings of incubators which destabilize internal conditions and expose samples to fluctuations. With MIRI® M’s independent multi-chamber architecture, opening one chamber has no effect on adjacent ones, ensuring each embryo culture stays in its stable micro-environment regardless of external manipulations.
Laboratory space is often at a premium, especially in modern clinics balancing multiple instruments and workflow stations. The modular capacity of MIRI® M—scalable up to 18 separate chambers in one docking station—offers a flexible deployment that maximizes bench space efficiency without sacrificing functionality or capacity.
Embryo culture protocols demand exact control over temperature and gas concentrations. The MIRI® M delivers high precision: temperature control within ±0.1 °C (35–39 °C range) and CO₂/O₂ concentration control with ±0.2% deviation (CO₂ 3.0-12.0%, O₂ 3.0-10.0%). This level of stability gives labs confidence in meeting rigorous culture standards.
Traceability and tracking are non-negotiable in IVF labs—any sample mix-up or identity error can lead to catastrophic consequences. The MIRI® M includes individual chamber displays showing patient information and built-in digital traceability software that logs chamber movements and timestamps, reducing human error and enhancing laboratory security.
Maintenance downtime is a major cost driver in IVF lab operations; when one incubator module fails, it can halt multiple workflows. The multi-chamber design of MIRI® M isolates chambers from each other—so a fault in one does not automatically cascade to all—resulting in improved operational resilience and less disruption to throughput.
Transporting embryos or oocytes between lab and operating theatres introduces risks related to time, temperature and gas exposure. With MIRI® M, the chamber itself can be moved while maintaining its sealed, controlled environment, reducing exposure to external air or temperature swings, and thereby minimizing risk during transport.
Finally, labs planning for expansion or modernization require systems that adapt rather than force full replacement. The MIRI® M’s modular design supports incremental addition of chambers and seamless scalability—translating into reduced lifecycle costs and smooth integration into evolving IVF workflows.
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