My problem in understanding your difficulty is the definition: what is "poor
nuclear artifact"?
No detail? Weak staining? Strong staining? "Empty" nuclus?
The cause of the problem will vary depending on its definition.
Unless you are more specific I think it will be very difficult in trying to
h
Happy Friday Histo people!!!
I need some opinions on a processing issue I cant seem to fix.
I run a short processing run each night for my small biopsies. With
two processors, I rotate so the machine with the newest reagents is the
one we run as the biopsy machine. For several weeks now my
Do you recall the source of pick up for the specimen? If it is picked up by
Histology either in the OR or a lab site the pick up person should be
checking the name on requisition, container and label in the book or ledger
prior to initialing and dating. Also the person bringing the specimen to
th
This is what I found at the CDC website:
"Table 9. Tissue Preparation for Human CJD and Related Diseases
1. Histology technicians wear gloves, apron, laboratory coat, and face
protection.
2. Adequate fixation of small tissue samples (e.g., biopsies) from a patient
with suspected prion disease ca
That's my goal in the next year!
Linda Blazek HT (ASCP)
Manager/Supervisor
GI Pathology of Dayton
Digestive Specialists, Inc
7415 Brandt Pike
Huber Heights, OH 45424
Phone: (937) 396-2623
Email: lbla...@digestivespecialists.com
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From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwes
But you have to hope the whom ever is putting the barcode label on uses the
correct patient barcode. That has been the problem that I have seen.
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From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
[mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Miha
One quick clarification: If the OR or whomever collects the specimen would
put a barcoded label on the specimen container at collection time, all of
this would be avoided.
That just seems to be a difficult thing for those departments to do. I know
that it's not a technical issue. It's something
Same here Sue, thanks for the reply.
Jan
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From: Finley, Sue [PH] [mailto:sfin...@providencehealth.bc.ca]
Sent: Friday, February 25, 2011 12:08 PM
To: 'Michael Mihalik'; Mahoney,Janice A; 'Nita Searcy'; 'Allison D' 'Scott';
histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: RE: [
Hi All
We too receive samples from our OR clinics and wards, referred-in etc. The
example that you have illustrated in this e-mail thread is a very common
occurrence and as Michael states bar coding cannot control the initial point of
entry into the lab. It is the responsibility of the person
..but Janice, Vantage won't help with accessioning issues will it? I'm just
going back to this issue because that was the initial point of the thread
and it's really, really important to get things right at accessioning.
The other aspect of this is that accessioning is the point at which materi
Hi all,
I am about to perform PCR on archival FFPE tissue after LCM.
My LCM system is from Arcturus and my tissue is on membraned glass slides.
My questions are:
1. What Kit to use to get the highest yields and quality RNA?
2. Can anyone who has been doing it for the past 2-3 years suggest m
Allison and all,
As part of LEAN we use standard work. This means we have best practice written
down, step by step and every person does it the same way on every specimen. No
matter what! This gets "hard-wired" after a while. The inspection of the
requisition against the container is one of th
Texas Rocks! 2 years and 2 months until I'm home.
Paula K. Pierce, HTL(ASCP)HT
President
Excalibur Pathology, Inc.
631 N Broadway
Moore, OK 73160
405-759-3953 Lab
405-759-7513 Fax
www.excaliburpathology.com
From: "sgoe...@mirnarx.com"
To: cp...@x-celllab.
So cruel!
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:13 AM, wrote:
> It's sunshine and 75 here in Texas...nanny nanny...I do love my state's
> weather!! We had shorts on yesterday =)
>
> Sarah Goebel, BA, HT(ASCP)
> Histotechnologist
> Mirna Therapeutics
> 2150 Woodward Street
> Suite 100
> Austin, Texas 78744
You are absolutely correct.
Nita Searcy, HT/HTL (ASCP)
Scott and White Hospital
Division Manager, Anatomic Pathology
2401 S. 31st. Street
254-724-2438
Temple, Texas, 76502
nsea...@swmail.sw.org
254-724-2438
>>> "Michael Mihalik" 2/25/2011 10:22 AM >>>
To me, there is only one 100% solution -
I believe that Telepathology should be the name of what one of our
pathologists wanted us to do. "Cut to the small focus of tumor and
stop".
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:12 AM, wrote:
> It's not nice to make fun of people's typing boo-boo's, but thanks for the
> Friday chuckle!!
>
> Sarah Goebel,
To me, there is only one 100% solution -- barcodes. I'm quite anxious to
hear other people's thoughts, though.
Michael Mihalik
PathView Systems | cell: 214.733.7688 | 800.798.3540 | fax: 952.241.7369
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From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
[mailto:histon
It's sunshine and 75 here in Texas...nanny nanny...I do love my state's
weather!! We had shorts on yesterday =)
Sarah Goebel, BA, HT(ASCP)
Histotechnologist
Mirna Therapeutics
2150 Woodward Street
Suite 100
Austin, Texas 78744
(512)901-0900 ext. 6912
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From: histonet-b
It's not nice to make fun of people's typing boo-boo's, but thanks for the
Friday chuckle!!
Sarah Goebel, BA, HT(ASCP)
Histotechnologist
Mirna Therapeutics
2150 Woodward Street
Suite 100
Austin, Texas 78744
(512)901-0900 ext. 6912
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From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouth
Hello to all in histoland. What types of checks and balances do you
have in place for specimen accessioning. We had a incidcent where I was
accessioning a case and I did not catch that the name on the container
was different from the name on the requisition. The resident grossing
did not catch i
Sheila
It is impossible to always get everything into an e-mail when you recieve a
general info request. I thought what you said was great.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Vikki
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Sheila Fonner wrote:
> Vikki,
>
>
>
> You are absolutely right! We do all of our ISH
Okay, it's Friday so I have to write that my first thought was
telepathology? Is that like telekinesis? Like processing slides and
coverslipping with your mind? Would this extend to sectioning to? How about
pouring your much needed cup of coffee, or even making the coffee?
Emily
It has become alm
Happy Friday Histonetters
I want to thank everyone for the information on IHC strainers. This is just
what I needed. People who actually use the machines on a daily basis giving
their opinions. What a great forum we have. Hope everyone has a great
weekend. Currently we are receiving 6-10 inches of
Hi Everyone,
Good news, the hotel extended the deadline for the GSH discount rate. As long
as they have rooms they will honor the $99 @ night rate that includes
continental breakfast and entrance to the park. There is no deadline for
registering for the meeting, but for us to have name tags re
Vikki,
You are absolutely right! We do all of our ISH as overnight runs to avoid
the problem of space constraint with the detection kits, etc. I agree that
all of the instruments have their good and bad points, and it really depends
on the lab and what kind of specimens/volume you have.
D
Carol
We mark all our prostates with dye for ease when embedding. For prostates
that need to be accessioned in order we alternate the color of the dyes,
hematoxylin, safranin, eosin. When grossing, the color of the dye used is in
the dictation. Hope this helps.
Cindy
Cindy Pyse, CLT, HT (ASCP)
Lab
Dear Histonet,
Thank you for your responses to my email this past week! If you have
any additional thoughts about telepathology or digital pathology,
please email me or call me directly.
Have a nice weekend!
Andrew
Andrew Byrnes
VP Sales and Marketing
AccelPath, LLC
M: 732-312-8008
www.A
Sorry if I confused anyone. It may have been FISH that we couldn't do on
the Leica instrument. There was some reason that the docs chose to go with
the Ventana. Anyway, I'm sure they are both fine instruments!
Sheila
From: Greg Dobbin [mailto:gvdob...@ihis.org]
Sent: Friday, February 25
In regards to the Ventana Ultra - if you are running PIN-4 or ISH
simultaneously on this instrument, the kits/ab's/probes they require take
up a lot of space on the reagent carousel which limits the number of
antibodies you can put on and as runs can go some where around 6-hours you
could find you
The handling of CJD and other prion diseases is on the CDC website and that is
the best place to understand the issues with equipment usage and contamination
as well as procedures. Many people have made comments however; the true issue
is not just how to handle it but what you can not use aga
Now I'm curious!! Please let us know what this mysterious processing is!!
Emily
It has become almost a cliche to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of
literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and
proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
-Richard Dawkins
On
Happy Friday!
I am wondering if anyone can give me feedback in regards to touch prep billing
when using diff quik and rapid H&E staining. Our facility uses both during
frozen section. I am wondering if I can bill 88333 twice per part (one for
rapid H&E, one for Diff quik) and then additional
The Bond does do ISH. In fact it utilizes the same detection kit so you have
only to buy the probes, not the additional detection kit that could (depending
on your volume of ISH requests) expire.
Greg
Greg Dobbin, R.T.
Chief Technologist, Anatomic Pathology
Dept. of Laboratory Medicine,
Queen E
Cindy,
We used to use the Dako stainer, and we still have it as a back-up if
necessary, but we have recently (in the last year) bought a Ventana Ultra.
You can put 30 slides at a time on it, but you do not have to batch the
slides. It is a continuous feed machine, which means that as soon as a
sl
We are in the process of revamping our procedures to be in the same format
throughout the entire laboratory. I have been asked to find out if there is
any format guidelines particularly for histology. We are using the CLSI
standards but histo and cyto are finding that we don't quite "fit the m
Yes. After the final report is signed out, any changes, additions, or
corrections have to be put through as an addendum. This becomes part of the
patient's permanent record.
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From: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
[mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.
Happy Friday Histonet!
I'm wondering how folks out there deal with specimen containers that are
leaking when received into the lab. Do you inform the physician's
office, send it back, not inform anyone, etc?
Thanks!
Stacy McLaughlin, HT(ASCP)
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We use different colored cassettes. We have 6 different colors and rotate them
with the cases. The color of the cassette is also dictated as part of the
gross description. We use the same color of slides as the cassettes to carry
this one step further.
Hazel Horn
Hazel Horn, HT/HTL (ASCP)
Su
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