After my surgery for a rare tumor, someone on Histonet was looking for
that particular tumor for a control. They would not give me the wet
tissue, even though I work here and had the surgery done here. They did
process the remainder of the tissue into paraffin blocks which I then
mailed off after signing a bunch of release forms. Just my personal
experience.
Victor
Victor Tobias
Clinical Applications Analyst
University of Washington Medical Center
Dept of Pathology Room BB220
1959 NE Pacific
Seattle, WA 98195
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On 9/8/2010 2:36 PM, sgoe...@xbiotech.com wrote:
Formalin is a biohazard and I think there are restrictions on tra
nsporting it anywhere (even home from the hospital). I know at past
j=obs, we did not allow anything that had touched formalin to leave.
It=ould be potential for lawsuits if somehow it got injested, not to
mention=if they saw something they didn't think was right? Doesn't
your faci=ity have something the patient signs before surgery saying
that anything r=emoved during surgery becomes property of the
facility? This usually =tops things quickly?
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Subject: [Histonet] Odd question
From: [1]kim.dona...@bhcpns.org<=br> Date: Wed, September 08, 2010
2:31 pm
To: [2]histo...@lists.uts=uthwestern.edu
Hi Histonetters,
Can anyone give me any idea of any laws that guide giving a patient
there organ after we have taken from it what we need to do the
Histology?
I know we have to keep it for a minimum of two weeks after sign out (
our<=r> policy is 6 weeks after sign out ). But then we dispose of
it as medical waste.
Are any of you aware of any guidelines on giving a patient there
entire
organ which would be submerged in formalin?
Help and thanks in advance :-)
Kim Donadio
Pathology Supervisor
Baptist Hospital
1000 W Moreno St.
Pensacola FL 32501
Phone (850) 469-7718
Fax (850) 434-4996
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