[Histonet] Medical waste in Arizona

Does anyone know if Arizona considers the cassette lids, bio bags and kim wipes, used on water baths, as medical waste. The recent post about being dinged for not putting those in medical waste, was the first I heard of anything like that. But was hoping that was just California. -- Gareth B.

Re: [Histonet] embedding and microtomy "medical waste"

Curt, we went through the same thing, but for the embedding we keep a plastic bucket on the bench and lined with a biohazard bag, and put all the lids and papers in that. We keep those for a week in case some tissue ends up missing. Then it goes into the red cans. At the microtome we do use th

Re: [Histonet] plastic to paraffin

Tamara, Yes, it is possible, and some do immuno on plastic sections with this method, but it's a lot of work and the issue arises of whether you have validated your stains to work when this method is used. And do you have controls treated the same way? In the clinical diagnostic environment, in

[Histonet] plastic to paraffin

Kenneth - You can do this, but it won't be pretty - if you trim as much of the plastic away as you can, you can etch the resin away with sodium methoxide (or ethoxide): http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/357729 [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/coreutils/img/pubmed256blue.png]

[Histonet] embedding and microtomy "medical waste"

So here's a good one for you all... we had the county health department come through the lab and ding us on medical waste... specifically the plastic disposable lids at embedding, the lens paper used for wrapping specimens such as ECC and EMB. Then they got us on the Kim Wipes used to clean the

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Re: [Histonet] Florida State Licensure

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Re: [Histonet] Histo/Cyto staining

We run both stains on our Sakura Prisma, but they share no common reagents except for the final Xylene unload station. We do use the combination CytoKwik stain, which combines the OG6 and EA50 steps, to reduce the number of steps in our Cytology stain procedure. We only run non-gyn, too. It is

Re: [Histonet] Plastic to Paraffin

Kenneth, Sorry but no, it does not work to go the other way. We do this occasionally but normally only a take a small portion of the tissue in the block. Did they embed all of it in plastic? Tim Morken Pathology Site Manager, Parnassus Supervisor, Electron Microscopy/Neuromuscular Special Stud

[Histonet] Plastic to Paraffin

Hello All, Our EM lab melted a block meant for IHC staining and put it into plastic. Is there any way to get the tissue back to paraffin? I know it's a long shot but just wondering Kenneth G Metzger HTL(ASCP) Histology Supervisor ARUP Labs Salt Lake City, Utah Phone: (801)583-2787 ext. 3101

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Good Morning, I need to contact some of you. If you have Histology in-house, use the PathNet program and do CAP. I have some questions on how you handle Inventory Management and a couple of other things. If it is okay to give you a ring please let me know. Thank you so much, Karen Heckford

[Histonet] PathNet HELP

Good Morning, I need to contact some of you. If you have Histology in-house and use the PathNet program. I have some questions on how you handle Inventory Management and a couple of other things. If it is okay to give you a ring please let me know. Thank you so much, Karen Heckford HT ASCP

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