RE: [Histonet] Bone IHC

2010-10-08 Thread Kuhnla, Melissa
Are you placing this bone section on a pre-cut control slides? The section will adhere better on its own slide. Are you drying your slides at room temp prior to baking? It always helps to remove all trapped water from under the section prior to baking. Post fixing with formalin fumes is said

[Histonet] mislabeling of slides and blocks

2010-10-08 Thread Amy Farnan
Hello everyone, I was wondering if you could share your policy for employee infractions of mislabeling blocks and slides? I would like to get an idea of what the standard is out there. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you Disclaimer: The information in this message is confidential. If

RE: [Histonet] cassette labelers

2010-10-08 Thread Shelly Christenson
Surgipath/Leica Biosystems has a cassette printer you may want to look at. You can set it up to type a double line on the cassette. We have two of them and have had no problems with them. Shelly Christenson HT(ASCP) Veterinary Diagnostic Labortory Kansas State University Mosier Hall L-216

RE: [Histonet] cassette labelers

2010-10-08 Thread Weems, Joyce
I haven't heard anything about the requirement. Leica and Sakura sell the exact same instrument, so both are excellent. They can be interfaced with LIS and barcoded, etc. We've had the Sakura cassette and slide printers for 6 or 7 years. TBS has good instruments also. Not sure about how

RE: [Histonet] cassette labelers

2010-10-08 Thread Wanda.Smith
We have a new Leica/Surgipath cassette labeler after using the old Surgipath cassette labeler for approximately 10 years with no problems. Our Biomed would change the print head ever year or two because the pins would wear our. The new Leica/Surgipath labeler prints accession number and

[Histonet] antibody GCET2

2010-10-08 Thread Gudrun Lang
Hi! Has anybody experiences with this antibody for IHC on human FFPET? I found only Sigma-Aldrich as supplier and their website doesn't show a datasheet with recommended titer. I'm thankful for any information. Gudrun Lang ___ Histonet mailing

[Histonet] GLP Compliant Laboratory

2010-10-08 Thread Karie Reaser
Hi, I was wondering if anyone runs a GLP Compliant laboratory and is willing to advise. Thanks Have a great day all you Histonetters! -- Karie L Reaser A.S. New Bolton Center University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Comparative Orthopaedic Research Laboratory 382 W Street Road

[Histonet] glp lab

2010-10-08 Thread Madary, Joseph
We run one here and trust me when I tell you the best thing to do is to actually go to one and see for yourself what the deal is. There is a lot to it. I suggest you take some classes as well in GxP. Imagine this, an FDA inspector comes in to the lab and picks out one HE slide. That slide has

RE: [Histonet] mislabeling of slides and blocks

2010-10-08 Thread sgoebel
Holy cow man!! Fired for mislabeling 2 times in 260 days!!= nbsp; Have you never been human and made a mistake?! I could understa= nd if it was a tech on a regular basis messing up, but that seems a little = crazy, especially if you are in a high volume hospital!!

RE: [Histonet] GLP Compliant Laboratory

2010-10-08 Thread sgoebel
What are you needing? Sarah Goebel, B.A., HT (ASCP) = Histotechnician XBiotech USA Inc. 8201 East R= iverside Dr. Bldg 4 Suite 100 Austin, Texas 78744 (512)386-5107 Original Message Subject: [Histonet] GLP Compliant Laboratory From: Karie

RE: [Histonet] mislabeling of slides and blocks

2010-10-08 Thread Amy Farnan
Sarah, What is your policy? Disclaimer: The information in this message is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, do not disclose, copy, or distribute this message, and please immediately contact the sender. ___ Histonet mailing list

Re: [Histonet] mislabeling of slides and blocks

2010-10-08 Thread Pamela Marcum
I agree with Janice.  Except we need three incidents and the person is fired on the third.  If it is a pathologist or the case is called negative when it was not and the patient goes untreated we are in a legal battle.  We also have pathologist and doctors who can make it happen faster if it

Re: [Histonet] mislabeling of slides and blocks

2010-10-08 Thread Patrick Laurie
Our policy deals with general serious infractions which are any error which could potentially harm the patient, 2 examples are embedding floaters and slide mislabeling. We use bar-coding for our blocks and slides as well as a rather sophisticated in-house-made tracking software. The way it works

RE: [Histonet] mislabeling of slides and blocks

2010-10-08 Thread Tim Higgins
Glad I never worked at that lab, never would have made to a supervisory role. I have to agree with Sarah, two infractions in a 12 month period is extremely severe. I don't care if you have Vantage or any one of the million tracking software packages out there. Especially with the shortage of

RE: [Histonet] mislabeling of slides and blocks

2010-10-08 Thread Michael Mihalik
Tim, I would both agree and disagree with your statement. We're all human. We all make mistakes. However, I do believe that 'systems' can be put in place which can render the likelihood of errors to almost zero. By 'systems', I mean either computer systems or some manual mechanism that may

[Histonet] Thomas Crowell is out of the office.

2010-10-08 Thread thomas . crowell
I will be out of the office starting 10/08/2010 and will not return until 10/12/2010. Please contact Kelly Miner at 617-871-5122 if you have any questions regarding clinical trial samples. ___ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu

RE: [Histonet] mislabeling of slides and blocks

2010-10-08 Thread sgoebel
Currrently I am working in a lab where I am the only tech., but in previous labs when mislabeling happened, the tech would be written up for it after one formal verbal warning. If they were written up 3 times in 6 months, then a suspension was possible (although never happens), then if the

RE: [Histonet] cassette labelers

2010-10-08 Thread Feher, Stephen
We are using Leica's IPC and IPS slide labelers. We do not hand write labels but use bar code scanners to implement LEAN protocols and to add to our patient safety efforts. These units are set up as one would configure any other printer on a network. They can also be set up to operate on an

[Histonet] To histonet!, very important information!!

2010-10-08 Thread kdboydhisto
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[Histonet] I will be out of office beginning the afternoon of 8/23 and returning 8/31 4 2010 and returning 8/13/2010

2010-10-08 Thread Marilyn . A . Weiss
I will be out of the office starting 10/07/2010 and will not return until 10/11/2010. In my absence please ask for Mary Campbell . If this is urgent or you need to speak to me directly you can contact me on my cell phone number 858-472-4266. ___

RE: [Histonet] problems with staining IHC

2010-10-08 Thread Cathy
We and several other sites (in British Columbia and Alberta) that I have contacted have been experiencing IHC staining problems. Ours started in August while others have been seeing this since May. We have had conference calls with Ventana about this and they have said that it is a problem with