What do you do if the IHC slides need to be sent to another facility. Currently we place a control on every slide we run. I know this is using a lot of tissue but I sometimes have 3 different cases going to 3 different facilities for patient treatment. Also we stain all the IHC stains for 5 different hospitals. I can't see any way of getting around putting the positive controls on the slides. With having 14 different Pathologists this seems to work out best. How is everyone handling this? Cindy
Cindy Pyse, CLT, HT (ASCP) Laboratory Manager X-Cell Laboratories 716-250-9235 etx. 232 e-mail [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Cartun Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:41 PM To: Amy Self; '[email protected]' Subject: Re: [Histonet] Batch Controls As the laboratory Director, I can sign-off on the positive control slides or my staff can do it since I have delegated this responsibility to them. We all use a different color pen to mark the slide(s) "O.K." so we always know who signed-off on the control slide. All positive controls are filed by date (the date is printed on the label). I believe that we can "back-track" (using the staining logs) to identify which machine the control was run on (if needed). Richard Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD Director, Histology & Immunopathology Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology Hartford Hospital 80 Seymour Street Hartford, CT 06102 (860) 545-1596 Office (860) 545-2204 Fax >>> Amy Self <[email protected]> 4/18/2012 9:55 AM >>> Good Morning and Happy Wednesday to everyone, For those of you that are running batch controls with your IHC stains I have a couple of questions for you. What is your process for review and documentation of the batch control slide? How do you label/identify this slide for easy retrieval? (Do you identify this slide by date run or stain run) Thanks in advance for everyone's help, Amy Amy Self Georgetown Hospital System 843-527-7179 NOTE: The information contained in this message may be privileged, confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
