Re: [Histonet] Paraffin on floors
Forget the floor damage. You don't use xylene because it's a suspected carcinogen and it isomerizes to free benzene, a known carcinogen, when it evaporates. Xylene vapors are heavier than air and stay in your reserve lung volume and do The Bad Thing. NEVER use xylene for cleaning surfaces. Not your microtome, not your countertop, not your floor. That's like using gasoline to dust your nightstand at home. That's why they make Paragard etc. If you don't like paraffin repellent spray on your area, elbow grease and a piece of gauze works just fine. Citrus cleaners work too. Anyone using paraffin as a surface cleaner should be written up. If you have to use xylene to clean a coverslipper or soak off a coverslip, only do so under a hood. Super Seriously, Jay A. Lundgren, M.S., HTL (ASCP) On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 12:22 PM Terri Braud via Histonet < histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote: > Paraffin buildup on floors. Histology's worst. Problem solution: > 1. Everyday, sweep and scrape personal work areas - microtomes and > embedding > 2. Put paraffin catching mats at key traffic areas - Change every 2 weeks > 3. Have Environmental Services/Housekeeping strip and re-wax the worst > traffic paths every 2 weeks > The stripping of the wax is key. Please don't use xylene because it will > ruin the floor. > > Terri L. Braud, HT(ASCP) > HNL Laboratories for > Holy Redeemer Hospital > 1648 Huntingdon Pike > Meadowbrook, PA 19046 > Ph: 215-938-3689 > Fax: 215-938-2021 > Honesty > AccouNtability > AgiLity > CoLlaboration > CoMpassion > >2. Wax in hallways (Naira Margaryan) > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 13:08:59 -0500 > From: Naira Margaryan > Subject: [Histonet] Wax in hallways > Hello, > We have noticed lots of wax dots on the hallway with linoleum floors. > Sticky mats are not helping. Even when we leave our lab coat in the lab, > there is still some residue under our shoes. > What do you use in your lab? > How you remove wax from the shiny linoleum surface? > Any suggestions are appreciated, > Naira > > > ***Please Note: Redeemer Health has now changed its email domain from > @holyredeemer . com to @redeemerhealth . org. Please alert your > IT/cybersecurity team to ensure our new email domain is safe-listed.*** > > This email, and any files transmitted with it, are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are > addressed. The information contained in this transmission may contain > privileged and confidential information, including patient information > protected by federal and state privacy laws. If you are not the intended > recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete this message and > any attachment from your system; you must not copy or disclose the contents > of this message or any attachment to any other person. Any views expressed > in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender > specifies and with authority, states them to be the views of Redeemer > Health. Redeemer Health may monitor email traffic data. > > > ___ > Histonet mailing list > Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet > ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
Re: [Histonet] Paraffin on floors
Paraffin buildup on floors. Histology's worst. Problem solution: 1. Everyday, sweep and scrape personal work areas - microtomes and embedding 2. Put paraffin catching mats at key traffic areas - Change every 2 weeks 3. Have Environmental Services/Housekeeping strip and re-wax the worst traffic paths every 2 weeks The stripping of the wax is key. Please don't use xylene because it will ruin the floor. Terri L. Braud, HT(ASCP) HNL Laboratories for Holy Redeemer Hospital 1648 Huntingdon Pike Meadowbrook, PA 19046 Ph: 215-938-3689 Fax: 215-938-2021 Honesty AccouNtability AgiLity CoLlaboration CoMpassion 2. Wax in hallways (Naira Margaryan) Message: 2 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 13:08:59 -0500 From: Naira Margaryan Subject: [Histonet] Wax in hallways Hello, We have noticed lots of wax dots on the hallway with linoleum floors. Sticky mats are not helping. Even when we leave our lab coat in the lab, there is still some residue under our shoes. What do you use in your lab? How you remove wax from the shiny linoleum surface? Any suggestions are appreciated, Naira ***Please Note: Redeemer Health has now changed its email domain from @holyredeemer . com to @redeemerhealth . org. Please alert your IT/cybersecurity team to ensure our new email domain is safe-listed.*** This email, and any files transmitted with it, are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information, including patient information protected by federal and state privacy laws. If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system; you must not copy or disclose the contents of this message or any attachment to any other person. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifies and with authority, states them to be the views of Redeemer Health. Redeemer Health may monitor email traffic data. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
Re: [Histonet] paraffin on floors
These work pretty well to keep wax from being spread around too much. https://www.grainger.com/product/PLASTICOVER-Floor-Protection-Mats-45MT85 Place them strategically in thresholds and high traffic areas. Unlike the blue semi-permanent ones you mentioned, which break down, when these get dirty, you just peel off the dirty layer, and there is a clean sheet underneath. 30 sheets a box. Use with the aforementioned twice monthly floor stripping. Or get the floor stripped once and tell your techs that they are responsible for keeping the floor in that condition. Make a clean floor a priority just like getting slides out. As in, you can't leave for the day until your area is scraped and swept. Depends on whether or not you want to pay histotechs to scrape floors. Maybe assign it to lab aides? It only takes a few minutes a day if you start with a clean floor. Personally, I hate working in a dirty lab. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
Re: [Histonet] paraffin on floors
After a ba-zillion years in Histology, I've found there is no substitution for having the floors stripped every 2 weeks. The trick is NOT to apply floor wax after stripping. We've also been currently using mats in key areas where the most traffic is. This prevents wax from being ground into the floor and becoming slippery. The mats are changed out every 2 weeks, too. The techs are expected to scrape up excess floor paraffin at the end of their shift or at the end of daily cutting. I hope this helps. Terri L. Braud, HT(ASCP) HNL Laboratories for Holy Redeemer Hospital 1648 Huntingdon Pike Meadowbrook, PA 19046 Ph: 215-938-3689 Fax: 215-938-3874 Honesty AccouNtability AgiLity CoLlaboration CoMpassion -Original Message- From: histonet-requ...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 1:00 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [EXTERNAL] Histonet Digest, Vol 219, Issue 8 CAUTION: This email originated from outside Redeemer Health. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Contact our IT Support Center at 215-938-3900 with questions. 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. Tiny folds in colon bx (Rinker,Jeffrey) 2. Flooring (Normington, Lacy) 3. Re: Flooring (Curt Tague) -- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:22:13 + From: "Rinker,Jeffrey" To: "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" Subject: [Histonet] Tiny folds in colon bx Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I have been having a terrible time with small folds in my colon bxs. They tend to be perpendicular to the cutting edge and i have tried all the standard ways to get rid of them. My Dr says that the sections are fine and that they don't effect the diagnosis but i would really like to figure out why hey are there. --- Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain privileged and confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. -- Message: 2 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:51:15 + From: "Normington, Lacy" To: "'histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu'" Subject: [Histonet] Flooring Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" What does your institution do to mitigate paraffin collection on the floors? Do you strip the floors at defined periods of time? Do you use mats throughout entire laboratory, under microtomy stations? Currently our institution uses a sticky plastic green flooring, which is ripped up every quarter and replaced. However, during this time there are many spots which the plastic breaks down due to consistent activity over a spot. This requires the flooring to be scraped, stripped, etc. Thanks Lacy Normington UW Health -- Message: 3 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:42:18 + From: Curt Tague To: "Normington, Lacy" , "'histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu'" Subject: Re: [Histonet] Flooring Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" We use some of this clear vinyl, like you'd see in a walk in fridge... get the wide stuff and cut it out to fit under a cutting station. It completely saves the floors and when it's trashed out we can just throw it away, get he floors cleaned and put some more down... works great for me. https://www.marinevinylfabric.com/products/clear-marine-vinyl?variant=39274692935764¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gclid=Cj0KCQiAjJOQBhCkARIsAEKMtO10i6dntCGz7nN7NIKDOxpa2a9Lp3o7EsglXSl9Mh-3TdVmL1pm0ugaAlvhEALw_wcB https://www.strip-curtains.com/proCat/bulkVinylRolls.php we use the 48" roll here I'm sure you can google other vendors too... best of luck! Curt -Original Message- From: Normington, Lacy via Histonet Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2022 8:51 AM To: 'histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu' Subject: [Histonet] Flooring What does your institution do to mitigate paraffin collection on the floors
