We use the Lysol Brand IC and Envirocide. We switch off every other month to prevent resistance to the cleaner that is being used within the instrument.
Jesus Ellin Yuma Regional Medical Center 928-336-1743 -----Original Message----- From: anni...@gmail.com [mailto:anni...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 9:24 AM To: Jesus Ellin; histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu; Tench, Bill; Histonet Subject: Re: [Histonet] decontamination of cryostat If I may ask, what do you contaminate with when doing a full meltdown defrost clean up after a suspect TB or hep B pos case? Formalin? Some proprietary decontaminant? AnnieinArabia Empower your Business with BlackBerry(r) and Mobile Solutions from Etisalat -----Original Message----- From: "Jesus Ellin" <jel...@yumaregional.org> Sender: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:01:19 To: Tench, Bill<bill.te...@pph.org>; <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Subject: RE: [Histonet] decontamination of cryostat Bill and company This is a very difficult, there are times were decontamination is needed immediately depending on the outcome of the frozen or there is scheduled maintenance that needs to occur with the decontamination as well. The UV light is not sufficient enough to call this decontamination. CAP has stated that it needs a specific reagent used in this decontamination procedure. My Chair was upset by this statement from the College and called them to ask for clarification. The main purpose is documented and scheduled times of decontamination is what we received back from the College. Of course there are circumstances when a case presents itself, action needs to be taken and documented. I would say is look at creating a scheduled decontamination that is appropriate for you facility. We have elected for a monthly Decontamination of cryostats, this is based on usage and history. This is documented and the appropriate solution is used during decontamination. This is done during the normally work day since we have two cryostats. This usually takes 3 days to do right, but some facilities might not be able to do this. Jesus Ellin Yuma Regional Medical Center -----Original Message----- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Tench, Bill Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 8:36 AM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] decontamination of cryostat I would suggest that if you are a CAP certified lab that you read the appropriate section in the current LAP standards list. The note associated with the standard is pretty specifiic. I believe that if you use the cryostat daily, you need to decontaminate once a week, but i don't have the standard available. Bill Tench Associate Dir. Laboratory Services Chief, Cytology Services Palomar Medical Center 555 E. Valley Parkway Escondido, California 92025 bill.te...@pph.org Voice: 760- 739-3037 Fax: 760-739-2604 [None] made the following annotations --------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTICE: This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. This message has been content scanned by the Axway MailGate. MailGate uses policy enforcement to scan for known viruses, spam, undesirable content and malicious code. 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