Amy Self, Histology Lab Senior Tech, Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital, Georgetown SC asks:
>>How is everyone storing their amputated limbs that are received in pathology? Are they stored in the morgue or in a refrigerator located within the department and at what temperature is suggested for the storage of amputated limbs?<< Here's the opinion of an elderly pathologist who's dissected his share of these (personal record is six in a day). Do NOT let these specimens sit around, because they stink, some of them when they arrive, and they can easily ruin a refrigerator with an ineradicable smell. Your pathologist must dissect them promptly, and they should be stored in the morgue, and disposed of as fast as possible. I never heard of anybody going back to the gross specimen, at least I never have. I've walked a good many of them to the hospital incinerator (way back when) myself. Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist Maryville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet