RE: [Histonet] tracking turnaround time of intraoperative consultations

2009-06-24 Thread Della Speranza, Vinnie
Tom, are the times you've listed benchmarks your facility has established for it's operation? I'm not aware of any national benchmarks using those numbers but want to be sure I haven't missed something. Also, where is your frozen lab located in relation to the OR? Are you located within the OR

[Histonet] Sheep Lung

2009-06-24 Thread Annette Featherstone
We will be cutting frozen sections on sheep lung and I was wondering if anyone has a method to produce good quality sections. Are you injecting anything in the lung prior to sectioning? Annette Featherstone ___ Histonet mailing list

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[Histonet] RELIA Histology Job Alert 6/24/2009 A few jobs to tell you about and a note about social networking

2009-06-24 Thread Pam Barker
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Re: [Histonet] Budget Microarray - Finally

2009-06-24 Thread Kimberly Tuttle
There is also a histonetter that makes silicone array molds, you can buy them online. http://www.arraymold.com/ Kimberly C. Tuttle HT (ASCP) Pathology Biorepository and Research Core University of Maryland Room NBW58, UMMC 22 S. Greene St Baltimore, MD 21201 (410) 328-5524 (410) 328-5508 fax

[Histonet] NSH IHC Forum

2009-06-24 Thread Aubrey Wanner
Registration for the First Annual One Day Immunohistochemistry Forum for Histotechs is now open. The event developed with Dr. Richard Cartun and other experts in the field is scheduled for July 18, 2009 in Indianapolis. The event will cover basic and advanced topics in the field of

[Histonet] Glycine

2009-06-24 Thread John Shelley
Hi Histonetters, I was given 3 antibodies that were worked up previously with 1% glycine for 30 mins. prior to antibody incubation. I have not come across this before and was wondering if anyone knows the purpose of its use. Is it a blocking reagent. The antibodies that I am using it on are

[Histonet] Re: tracking turnaround time of intraoperative consultations

2009-06-24 Thread Robert Richmond
Vinnie Della Speranza, Manager for Anatomic Pathology Services Medical University of South Carolina Charleston SC asks about tracking turnaround time of frozen sections (note that not every intraoperative consultation requires a frozen section). The few services I've worked on that attempted to

[Histonet] MCP-1

2009-06-24 Thread Annette Featherstone
Is anyone working with MCP-1 Armenian hamster, from Biolegend? This is for FFPE tissue. The secondary is anti-Syrian hamster. Any help would be appreciated. Annette Featherstone ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu

[Histonet] DAB substrate buffer

2009-06-24 Thread anjan kumar
hi every one, I am using Labvision HRP polymer secondary antibody with DAB chromogen, funny thing is that i have exhausted the DAB substrate buffer. so i tried with PBS 7.4 and h2o2 and chromogen and i found out that nothing worked. can anyone tell me a protocol or recipe

[Histonet] Silver staining /other methods to reveal axon sprouting/retraction following injury

2009-06-24 Thread TF
Hi all i read such figures in Cajal's books..I guess he is not using specific degenerative sliver staining, as Natua developed the method 50 years later. I wonder anyone can send me the protocol for such kind of silver staining - there are so many ways of Golgi staining - to reveal post-injury

[Histonet] Beta-Amyloid

2009-06-24 Thread Sebree Linda A
Hi, Wondering if anyone knows of a Beta-Amyloid antibody, for use on FFPE brain sections, that doesn't need formic acid pretreatment? Thanks, Linda A. Sebree University of Wisconsin Hospital Clinics IHC/ISH Laboratory DB1-223 VAH 600 Highland Ave. Madison, WI 53792 (608)265-6596

RE: [Histonet] Re: tracking turnaround time of intraoperativeconsultations

2009-06-24 Thread Horn, Hazel V
No, it's still the same. 20 minutes is the CAP TAT. Hazel Horn Hazel Horn, HT/HTL (ASCP) Supervisor of Histology Arkansas Children's Hospital 1 Children's WaySlot 820 Little Rock, AR 72202 phone 501.364.4240 fax501.364.3155 visit us on the web at:www.archildrens.org

RE: [Histonet] Re: tracking turnaround time of intraoperative consultations

2009-06-24 Thread Della Speranza, Vinnie
Thanks Dr. Richmond. CAP's turnaround time requirement for frozen sections is unchanged. My question was prompted by the fact that we have an individual internal to our organization pushing for measuring turnaround from time of order to time result is issued, which muddies the water, at least

Re: [Histonet] Re: tracking turnaround time of intraoperative consultations

2009-06-24 Thread Victor Tobias
Vinnie, We have always measured from the time the specimen is received in Pathology. Our frozen section room is adjacent to the OR. Victor Victor Tobias Clinical Applications Analyst University of Washington Medical Center Dept of Pathology Room BB220 1959 NE Pacific Seattle, WA 98195

[Histonet] hood for manual special stains

2009-06-24 Thread Mark Love
The hospital where I work just opened a new lab. The histology department is now combined with cytology and is made up of me, a second histotech, a cytology prep tech, and our cytotech supervisor. We didn't have a hood in the old lab, so we did our manual special stains on a workbench with

RE: [Histonet] hood for manual special stains

2009-06-24 Thread Smith, Allen
I think a fume hood and a safety shower should be standard laboratory fixtures. I have a fume hood. I use it for manual coverslipping. I require my students to do the same. OSHA says that exposure to xylene fumes can cause liver damage. There is also a persistent rumor that repeated

RE: [Histonet] Re: tracking turnaround time of intraoperative consultations

2009-06-24 Thread WILLIAM DESALVO
Vinnie, I am very interested in this discussion about tracking from time of order to completion. I am particularly interested how or why your institution decided to develop a new tracking parameter that neither CAP or JCAHO require. What drives this decision? What is the specific problem and

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