How do you handle counting days to preliminary autopsy dx (PAD) when doing cases in which the brain autopsy results are the main component of disease? If we accession at the time of autopsy and then let the brain fix for several days before cutting in, then the PAD is many days past the 3-day reporting requirement.
On standard "body" cases we report PAD the same day and final within two weeks. With neuropathology cases it can be up to 10 days for a PAD. Tim Morken Pathology Site Manager, Parnassus Supervisor, Electron Microscopy/Neuromuscular Special Studies Department of Pathology UC San Francisco Medical Center _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
