Hi everyone, I have 2 questions:
1. Could someone please share some ways to keep track of the control that goes with the slides that it was used for? So I am a small GI lab and there is a pathologist here a couple days a week. We do trichrome on Microscopic colitis cases and so I have been batching the trichromes because it's a long stain to do by hand and it's a lot easier to do it that way. But my slides are automatically printed for me and they have the date on them that the specimen was entered into the system. I cut the slide but then hold it until I am ready to do the stain. I put a date on the trichrome control slide but it of course does not match the date on the patient slides because they have been held for a few days. Is this something I even need to worry about? So far I have just been writing down the date that I stain the patient slide on a log sheet but I am trying to minimize the amount of paperwork/manual logging. 1. We recently got a accessioning system and I can now pull the number of blocks and stains done each day. Do I need to still keep writing down in my log sheet the number of blocks and stains? Do I need to print out the report that has the numbers and file it or since I have the ability to pull it from the system, I don't need to have physical logs. I am just trying to minimize as much manual logging and paperwork as possible! Thanks in Advance!!! Tasha Campbell, B.S.,HTL(ASCP) Frederick Gastroenterology Associates 310 W. 9th St. Frederick, MD 21701 301-695-6800 ext. 144 _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
