We are a small hospital and though we no longer do in house autopsies we still
had an autopsy assistant.(most prefer to be called this) We always had a pool
of people available to do this job. Training as a histotech does not include
this job and I have always refused to do it. I know there are
We have always helped with autopsies, just comes with the territory.
Tom Podawiltz HT (ASCP)
Histology Section Head/Laboratory Safety Officer.
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We put patients and controls on the same slide. We used to use the slides with
the red box for the control but encountered staining issues.
Tom McNemar, HT(ASCP)
Histology Co-ordinator
Licking Memorial Health Systems
(740) 348-4163
(740) 348-4166
tmcne...@lmhealth.org
www.LMHealth.org
We do, on average, about 15 autopsies per year. We have a diener who does them
for us. The pathologists are present and are often are hands on during the
autopsy. Sometimes a lab aide will be there in the mode of a scribe. Our
histotechs do not participate in autopsies.
Michelle
On Jul
Here we all take turns doing the autopsies. We have call for
weekends/holidays as well. We do have pathologist and residents in the
suite with us, however we do the harvest and hand everything in one
block from the trachea to the testicles to the docs to dissect and then
we remove the brain and
It is the most effective and economical way to run your IHC's.
We have been doing it that way for as long as I have been in histology.
Thanks,
Tim
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 6:04
Just one.
Linda A. Sebree
University of Wisconsin Hospital Clinics
IHC/ISH Laboratory
DB1-223 VAH
600 Highland Ave.
Madison, WI 53792
(608)265-6596
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Each slide or else the whole theory of knowing each slide got treated
the same goes out the window. :)
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Rathborne, Toni
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 9:19 AM
We do put controls on each slide in a case. Sometimes it's just one slide
that failed in a run. A batch control wouldn't tell you which slide failed
if there are no internal controls in the patient tissue. I personally
wouldn't feel comfortable doing IHC with batch controls.
Mark
On Wed, Jul
In our Lab we put a control on every slide. We keep multiple controls cut
and stored in refrigerator. Most are multi- tissue controls. We use the
Ventana detection kits and it is not cost efficient to use 2 uses of the
detection kit per antibody. Of course there are times that this will not
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Amanda,
We have a Microm HM550 cryostat and have used Brian J. Hurley (New England
Biomedical Services). He is an independent service engineer. He's very good.
In fact ThermoFisher uses him if a service visit is needed.
781-331-8642
617-774-7368 (cell)
Peggy
Peggy Sherwood
Lab Associate,
Does anyone have an extra Cat Scratch control block to spare? We currently buy
control sections from Newcomer, but I'm not convinced they are that good.
Thanks
Ronnie Houston, MS HT(ASCP)QIHC
Anatomic Pathology Manager
ChildLab, a Division of Nationwide Children's Hospital
www.childlab.com
700
It is really just a freezer with a microtome in it. Do you have an on-site
refrigeration guy that could look at it? I have used our in-house guy a time
or two. Ours is pretty simple and does not have all of the electronics that
you may have on the Leica but it is worth a shot.
Tom McNemar,
Each case gets one positive control per antibody. If, for example, I run a
bone marrow bx and aspirate, I use one positive control for both slides.
Tom McNemar, HT(ASCP)
Histology Co-ordinator
Licking Memorial Health Systems
(740) 348-4163
(740) 348-4166
tmcne...@lmhealth.org
www.LMHealth.org
We have two contract deiners.. They work at other hospitals around town and
charge per case. Works well here as our numbers have decreased drastically over
the years.
Joyce Weems
Pathology Manager
Saint Joseph's Hospital
5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd NE
Atlanta, GA 30342
678-843-7376 -
Amanda,
Im not exactly sure which part of your machine is freezing based on your
description, but, I have a leica 1510 and it has freezing issues. Everyone
I have ever used does this. The bar that hold the specimen chucks ices and
freezes over like crazy.. It will frezze the chuck in the bar
Hello Amanda,
We are located in Eastern Pa and we use Belair Instruments out of NJ
(908-518-2662). We have been very happy with their service on our cryostats.
Donna L. Suresch
Merck Research Laboratories
Research Biologist
Imaging Research - West Point
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From:
Hi Jack,
We're trying to cut just plain old FFPE blocks.
From: Jack Ratliff ratliffj...@hotmail.com
To: Adrienne Anderson rennie1...@yahoo.com
Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu;
bush...@rose-hulman.edu
Couple more questions. :) What is the tissue and the dimensions of the specimen?
On Jul 20, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Adrienne Anderson rennie1...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi Jack,
We're trying to cut just plain old FFPE blocks.
From: Jack Ratliff ratliffj...@hotmail.com
To: Adrienne Anderson
This New York Times story about the use of formaldehyde by embalmers
is worth reading by pathologists and histotechnologists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/business/despite-cancer-risk-embalmers-stay-with-formaldehyde.html?_r=1hp
Seems like they've basically got the right idea.
Bob Richmond
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