[Histonet] Senior Tech Position at Children's Health Dallas, TX
Good morning We have Senior Tech position open at the Dallas campus of Children's Health (formerly Children's Medical Center Dallas). This position requires HT/HTL certification as well as qualification for High Complexity Testing. Supervisory experience is preferred. This should be the link directly to the posting: http://jobsearch.childrens.com/us/en-us/Job-Details/Sr-Medical-Tech-Histology-Services-Job/Dallas-Texas/XjdP-jf564-ct101520-jid52860517 Or, please visit www.childrens.com and look for the Sr. Med Tech in Allied Health. Michelle Lamphere Senior Tech, Histology Anatomic Pathology O: 214.456.2318 | Fax: 214.456.0779 E: michelle.lamph...@childrens.com 1935 Medical District Drive | B1.06 | Dallas, Texas 75235 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] EBSciences microwave tissue processor
Good morning Has anybody ever experienced a problem with their EBSciences microwave where the temperature probe failed during a cycle and the reagent continued to heat? For anybody who uses the microwaves, have you experienced any other mechanical issues that could affect your microwave processing? Also, are there microwave processors on the market that have safety measures in place to prevent this sort of error? Michelle Lamphere, HT(ASCP) Lead Tech, Histology Department of Anatomic Pathology 1935 Medical District Dr. Dallas, TX 75235 214.456.2318 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
Re: [Histonet] Cerebro or ABT along with Cerner Millennium (Janineh, Marcie)
We have Cerner Millenium and just went live with ABT. I do not know anything about Cerebro, but what I know of ABT so far is that it is does not do a whole lot of things that I wish it did. Such as, I cannot easily generate any kind of report regarding the data (turn-around times) that is collected. I can go into each individual case and see each step of the process, but not any sort of collective data for a time/date range. Also, the support we have gotten from Cerner for the entire process has been lacking. We did eventually (towards the very end of the build) get a person who was responsive and helpful, but if we had not insisted on that, we would have had no training whatsoever. We were given a spreadsheet and told to fill in the blanks. We did not have a person from Cerner physically here when we went live. All problems have had to be addressed over the phone because the person that we do have on site is a contract Cerner person who had never had any knowledge of AP pri or to this project. Whatever equipment you have that you will need to interface, I would make sure that you work those details out in advance. Cerner really tried to gouge us with pricing of interfaces. Everything is based on your current equipment, not the equipment that you have when the project actually goes live either. If you want to know more, feel free to contact me directly Michelle Lamphere Senior Tech, Histology Anatomic Pathology O: 214.456.2318 | Fax: 214.456.0779 E: michelle.lamph...@childrens.com 1935 Medical District Drive | B1.06 | Dallas, Texas 75235 Message: 1 Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 18:14:51 + From: Janineh, Marcie marcie.jani...@childrens.harvard.edu To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] Cerebro or ABT along with Cerner Millennium Message-ID: 33a991d932e6d14fa0f083bd6f64148e6b6bf...@chexmbx1a.chboston.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Anyone using either ABT or Cerebro along with Cerner Millennium? If so, would you be willing to share your experiences? Thanks in advance, Marcie Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
Re: [Histonet] plants in the lab
Our hospital Safety and Infection Control departments have policies in place prohibiting any potted plants from being in the hospital, anywhere. We can have them if they are only in water, but the soil presents an infection control issue for patients because of potential mildew, mold, spores, etc. Michelle Lamphere Senior Tech, Histology Anatomic Pathology O: 214.456.2318 | Fax: 214.456.0779 E: michelle.lamph...@childrens.com 1935 Medical District Drive | B1.06 | Dallas, Texas 75235 Message: 2 Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 14:23:00 -0400 From: Blazek, Linda lbla...@digestivespecialists.com To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] plants in the lab Message-ID: 5a2bd13465e061429d6455c8d6b40e391742126...@ibmb7exchange.digestivespecialists.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Happy Friday all! Does anyone have documentation of the benefit of having plants in the lab? I know this was discusses quite a while ago but I can't find references for it. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Linda Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] Software for Tracking/Archiving Long-term Storage of Various Specimens
What are people using to keep track of tissue specimens that they archive? We have an archive of wet and frozen tissues going back to the early 90's and are looking into a software program that will allow us to keep track of these specimens. We would also like to then generate a variety of reports based on the tissue that we have archived. Ideally, it would be nice if the program interfaced with EPIC Beaker, but that is not essential. Within the program, we would like to be able to delineate different categories that the specimens might fit into. Does such a program exist? If you are currently using a program, what do you like? And what are the limitations? We are currently in the process of implementing ABT with Cerner, but will be moving to Epic in the next couple of years. Thank you in advance Michelle Lamphere Senior Tech, Histology Anatomic Pathology O: 214.456.2318 | Fax: 214.456.0779 E: michelle.lamph...@childrens.com 1935 Medical District Drive | B1.06 | Dallas, Texas 75235 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] Dallas job openings
We have full and part time openings at Children's Health in Dallas, TX. Positions require qualification for High Complexity Testing. Please contact me directly to inquire. Michelle Lamphere Senior Tech, Histology Children's Health 214-456-2318 michelle.lamph...@childrens.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] RE: Dako's Omnis
We are in the process of having the Omnis installed at our facility. We did a fairly extensive (side by side, as much as was possible) comparison of the Ventana Ultra, the Leica Bond, and the Dako Omnis instruments before deciding on the Omnis. I will be happy to share our experiences about the Omnis with you as we are discovering them. Michelle Lamphere, HT(ASCP) Lead Tech, Histology Department of Anatomic Pathology 1935 Medical District Dr. Dallas, TX 75235 214.456.2318 Message: 3 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 17:17:16 -0800 From: joe joe powderhoun...@hotmail.com Subject: [Histonet] Dako's Omnis To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Message-ID: col130-w274931d0c3fb83a214c58eab...@phx.gbl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Can anyone share their experiences with me about Dako's new IHC / FISH instrument? Thanks in advance! Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] Histology program/school?
Are there any histology programs or school in the Atlanta, GA area? If not, what would be a good place to start (in Atlanta) for somebody who wants to become a histotech? Michelle Lamphere, HT(ASCP) Lead Tech, Histology Department of Anatomic Pathology 1935 Medical District Dr. Dallas, TX 75235 214.456.2318 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] RE: Competency for Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
I think a few people might find this interesting I recently attended a class about Competency Assessments in the lab. The class was given by Ken Byrd (fairly certain that is how you spell his name), a Senior Inspector at CAP. When this particular question came up, I asked him to give examples of how the histology lab was supposed to use the 6 elements to assess competency. He informed the entire class that the competency assessment question with the six elements did not apply to the histology lab because histology did not report test results. It is the one question on the Gen Lab checklist that did not apply to ANP. Kinda shocking, I know. It does not mean that we scrapped our entire competency program, we simply removed some of the six elements. Michelle Lamphere Senior Tech, Histology Anatomic Pathology Children's Medical Center O: 214.456.2318 | Fax: 214.456.0779 E: michelle.lamph...@childrens.com 1935 Medical District Drive | B1.06 | Dallas, Texas 75235 Message: 9 Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 07:14:08 -0400 From: Histology hi...@pathlab.us Subject: [Histonet] Competency for Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Message-ID: 9C0B151B30AC5F4ABFD1B69D915F84CF33E6D4@dc01.DominionPath.local Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, I would love to see your competency spreadsheet for histology. We just finished our first CAP inspection and got a deficiency here. He said the direct observation was great, but that we need to have all 6 elements. I am having trouble trying to come up with a way to evaluate some of these and would love any help. Thanks in advance, Mehndi Helgren Dominion Pathology Laboratories 733 Boush St. Suite 200 Norfolk, VA 23510 757-664-7901 hi...@pathlab.us Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
RE: [Histonet] Tracking OR specimens
We currently have EPIC as our hospital wide system and Cerner as the Lab system. It is a nightmare for specimen tracking, meaning there is not simple way to do it. That is why I was asking the question. Our OR wanted to put the burden of responsibility on the histo lab for making sure that they get all of their specimens to us. Just having them correct a problem with a specimen that they do submit can be an hours long or even days long process involving multiple conversations and I really wanted no part of having to keep track of their specimens and then finding them if there is something missing. I related it to asking them to come in and help us find a block or slide when we can't find it. Currently, EPIC interfaces with the general lab orders, but not AP (and Micro?) As far as I know, there is no tracking in EPIC. What we suggested was giving them access to print our case log out of Cerner and then they could go through it to make sure we had received everything. What we will eventually end up doing is have a real time running board that is an interface between EPIC and Cerner. Our main lab uses it successfully. Essentially, the OR will order AP specimens in EPIC like they would a gen lab order. That order will actually come across the interface as a gen lab order. When we receive the specimen in histology, that will indicate to Cerner that the case is complete. We will have a monitor in the histology lab and one in the OR. As specimens are entered in EPIC, they will show up on the monitor in both the OR and histology. As we receive them, they will drop off the list. Both departments will then have a running log of every specimen from the OR. At least that is the theory. Michelle -Original Message- From: Garrison, Becky [mailto:becky.garri...@jax.ufl.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 9:56 AM To: 'WILLIAM DESALVO'; Michelle Lamphere; histonet Subject: RE: [Histonet] Tracking OR specimens Realize this is a late response I can pull a Specimen report through Centricity (the OR computer system). The OR staff enters each specimen as it is collected (for pathology, cultures for micro, frozens, touch preps) into Centricity as part of their documentation for the case. The report I pull extracts this data. I run each day after 12 noon for the previous day. We only instituted this in April. Gives great feedback and lets me check that the specimen is received in Pathology but that the pathology accession staff accurately records each specimen. We also get the OR schedule but not all cases on schedule generate a specimen and some cases expected to have pathology specimen don't and other cases not expected to generate a specimen do .. so the Specimen Report is the most specific way to track what was intended to go to Pathology. Unfortunately, we are converting hospital wide to EPIC and so far, EPIC OR documentation does not have a comparable function. Orders will then be placed not in an OR module but in the same place that all other orders are placed and our Order Interface does not give specific specimen sites. If there are EPIC users / EPIC vendors that have a solution, I would really like to hear from you. If you use Centricity and want more specifics, will be glad to give more information on our set up. Becky Garrison Pathology Supervisor Shands Jacksonville Jacksonville, FL 32209 904-244-6237, phone 904-244-4290, fax 904-393-3194, pager -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of WILLIAM DESALVO Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 11:25 AM To: Michelle Lamphere; histonet Subject: RE: [Histonet] Tracking OR specimens We use the OR schedule and have a log at Surgical Pathology that the person delivering specimens places a patient label w/ the number of specimens delivered and they sign off. This has helped many times when OR believes they have delivered all the specimens. We use both the log and OR schedule to reconcile cases and contact OR is a case has not been delivered by end of day. William DeSalvo, BS HTL(ASCP) Production Manager-Anatomic Pathology Chair, NSH Quality Management Committee Owner/Consultant, Collaborative Advantage Consulting From: michelle.lamph...@childrens.com To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 13:14:04 + Subject: [Histonet] Tracking OR specimens Are there any histology labs that actively participate in auditing the Operating Room on a daily basis to make sure that histology receives all of the specimens that the OR should have submitted? If so, how do you do this? Or should the OR be solely responsible for making sure that they specimens make it to histology? Michelle M Lamphere, HT (ASCP) Senior Tech, Histology Children's Medical Center 1935 Medical District Drive Dallas, TX 75235 Office :214-456-2798 Histology: 214-456
RE: [Histonet] HE Stainer Leica vs Sakura (Sophia Lin)
I will give the Leica coverslipper some love herewe do not really have any problems. We put the rack in and go do whatever until it is done. I do not get air bubbles and I do not have to babysit. Obviously, as with any piece of equipment, occasionally something goes out and we have to have it repaired. But that thing has been chugging along in our lab since 2006. On the other hand, we did have the Sakura tape coverslipper for a couple of years back in the 90's, I think (was before I got here). Almost every one of those slides is un-usable. The tape has warped and pulled off and pulled the tissue sections with it. I am sure they have made improvements since then, but made the lab very leery of using the tape. Michelle M Lamphere, HT (ASCP) Senior Tech, Histology Children's Medical Center 1935 Medical District Drive Dallas, TX 75235 Office :214-456-2798 Histology: 214-456-2318 Fax: 214-456-0779 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] Equipment service
Does anybody in the DFW area have a vendor or company (other than the manufacturer) that they would recommend to service their histology equipment? Annual PMs, emergency repairs, etc... Michelle M Lamphere, HT (ASCP) Senior Tech, Histology Children's Medical Center 1935 Medical District Drive Dallas, TX 75235 Office :214-456-2798 Histology: 214-456-2318 Fax: 214-456-0779 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] Tracking OR specimens
Are there any histology labs that actively participate in auditing the Operating Room on a daily basis to make sure that histology receives all of the specimens that the OR should have submitted? If so, how do you do this? Or should the OR be solely responsible for making sure that they specimens make it to histology? Michelle M Lamphere, HT (ASCP) Senior Tech, Histology Children's Medical Center 1935 Medical District Drive Dallas, TX 75235 Office :214-456-2798 Histology: 214-456-2318 Fax: 214-456-0779 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] CAP Gen.55500
Good afternoon We were wondering how other labs handle their training/competencies in response to the revised Competency Assessment question in the Gen Lab portion of the checklist. (GEN.55500) 1. How do you do your training before you start your competency? 2. How do you differentiate initial training from initial competency? 3. Is semiannually after the date of hire? Or after training? Or not until after initial competency? And how does that apply to skills that would only be utilized once or twice a year (such as a special stain that you do not perform on a routine basis but still offer)? 4. How do you train without using actual patients? Example...accessioning, embedding, processing, etc 5. What template do you use to incorporate all six elements that are listed? 6. What are you incorporating as your test system? I really appreciate any insight or advice you can offer. Thank you! Michelle M Lamphere, HT (ASCP) Senior Tech, Histology Children's Medical Center 1935 Medical District Drive Dallas, TX 75235 Office :214-456-2798 Histology: 214-456-2318 Fax: 214-456-0779 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] RE: Leica Bond III Opinions
I would love to hear any feedback that you get from this query. Michelle M Lamphere, HT (ASCP) Senior Tech, Histology Children's Medical Center 1935 Medical District Drive Dallas, TX 75235 Office :214-456-2798 Histology: 214-456-2318 Fax: 214-456-0779 Could I get the opinions of any labs using the Leica Bond III for IHC staining? I'm especially interested to hear from those that switched from Ventana to Leica, but any feedback is appreciated. Few questions that come to mind: Are you happy with the quality of the stains you're performing on the Bond III? Are there antibodies that you were not able to run on the Bond III? Is the machine reliable, or does it break down often, requiring technical service? How arduous is cleaning and managing the cover tiles? Are the three black slide drawers durable? Thank you, Roger Heyna Maywood, IL Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] BK Virus Controls
Is there anybody that has BK Virus (IHC) control tissue that they would be willing to share? Our processes are changing and we are about to start performing this test more frequently. Unfortunately, we very rarely have a positive case and so I am quite limited on control tissue. Thank you in advance. Michelle M Lamphere, HT (ASCP) Senior Tech, Histology Children's Medical Center 1935 Medical District Drive Dallas, TX 75235 Office :214-456-2798 Histology: 214-456-2318 Fax: 214-456-0779 Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
[Histonet] Tissue Processors
We currently have three Excelsiors and I would have a hard time going back to any other processor. I really appreciate the reagent management of this machine. We have virtually eliminated all hazardous reagent exposure during reagent exchange. I think their customer service is outstanding as well as their technical support and training. I have used the VIPs and the Leica ASP 300. The only downside that I have experienced with the Excelsior is that all three of our machines have a software glitch that will make the end date of a processing schedule get stuck on a previous date if the machine is run for a few days in a row and then taken off service for a few days. If you are not careful, a delayed start becomes an immediate start as the machine tries to backtrack to the previous date. Michelle M Lamphere, HT (ASCP) Senior Tech, Histology Children's Medical Center 1935 Medical District Drive Dallas, TX 75235 Office :214-456-2798 Histology: 214-456-2318 Fax: 214-456-0779 -Original Message- From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of histonet-requ...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 12:03 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Histonet Digest, Vol 109, Issue 6 Send Histonet mailing list submissions to histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to histonet-requ...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu You can reach the person managing the list at histonet-ow...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Histonet digest... Today's Topics: 1. RE: automated microtomes (Lynette Pavelich) 2. HistoTALK (David Kemler) 3. RE: Tissue Processors (Marcum, Pamela A) 4. RE: Tissue Processors (Boyd, Debbie M) 5. Re: Immunohistochemical detection of cytokines in older frozen sections (Rob Day) 6. RE: Histonet Digest, Vol 109, Issue 5 (Riesen, Rebecca) 7. Re: Fixation time (Geoff) 8. Histology Positions in Little Rock AR (Marcum, Pamela A) 9. Re: Fixation time (Teri Johnson) 10. Re: Tissue Processors (Teri Johnson) 11. job opening in PA (Hutton, Allison) 12. Re: Re: Tissue Processors (Rene J Buesa) 13. RE: Re: Tissue Processors (Ellenburg, Deborah) -- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 12:10:06 + From: Lynette Pavelich lpave...@hurleymc.com Subject: RE: [Histonet] automated microtomes To: Rene J Buesa rjbu...@yahoo.com, Rathborne, Toni trathbo...@somerset-healthcare.com, histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Message-ID: 89f4666a496dc949a819ecc40e11c867bf56c...@exchangemb1.hmc.hurleymc.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I am purchasing my second Leica RM2255 automated microtome. Rene' is correct in saying that the carpal tunnel syndrome will eventually affect every advanced tech by using any microtome manually. On the RM2255, the flywheel additionally is automated. You can choose to use the flywheel manually or automated by the simultaneous pushing of two buttons. Nice feature for us oldies to ease us into automation or if you have a tiny specimen that you need to take extra care with and want to use manually. Companies are very happy to send in a demo to try for a couple weeks. Happy shopping!! ;) Lynette From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] on behalf of Rene J Buesa [rjbu...@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 1:19 PM To: Rathborne, Toni; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] automated microtomes The advantage of the so called automated microtomes (the only thing automated about them is the block advance) is that they alleviate wrist effort and in some ways prevent carpal tunnel syndrome that affects some histotechs (mostly of the senior persuasion). I would go with the Leica. Ren? J. From: Rathborne, Toni trathbo...@somerset-healthcare.com To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Sent: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 11:48 AM Subject: [Histonet] automated microtomes I'm looking for some opinions about the automated microtomes currently available. Which ones do most techs prefer? Which are more reliable? Is there an advantage to having a semi-automated microtome? Thanks in advance for your replies. Toni ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
[Histonet] Histotech Grossing Protocols
Is there anyone that would be willing to share their protocols with me concerning their high complexity qualified histotechs grossing surgical specimens? We are in the process of researching this endeavor and would like to get a feel for what other labs are doing and how they maintain compliance. Michelle Lamphere, HT (ASCP) Lead Tech, Histology Children's Medical Center 1935 Medical District Dr Dallas, TX 75235 tel 214.456.2318 michelle.lamph...@childrens.com Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it contains information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all applicable privileges related to this information. /pre span style=color: rgb(0, 160, 0); font-weight: bold;Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail/spanbr / br / span style=font-size: 8pt;This e-mail, facsimile, or letter and any files or attachments transmitted with it containsbr / information that is confidential and privileged. This information is intended only for the use of the br / individual(s) and entity(ies) to whom it is addressed. If you are the intended recipient, further br / disclosures are prohibited without proper authorization. If you are not the intended recipient, any br / disclosure, copying, printing, or use of this information is strictly prohibited and possibly a br / violation of federal or state law and regulations. If you have received this information in error, br / please notify Children's Medical Center Dallas immediately at 214-456- or via e-mail at br / priv...@childrens.com. Children's Medical Center Dallas and its affiliates hereby claim all br / applicable privileges related to this information./spanbr / br / /html ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
