Vanessa,
We strongly encourage people that make such requests to use a funeral home
or crematorium to handle the tissue for them (for example an aborted fetus;
or some cultures wish to have an amputated limb buried in their future
burial plot). If they take their own amputated limb and then were to
Here is a message I am posting for Katrina, a non-Histonet member. Please
contact her (email address at the bottom)if you have questions. Thanks!
ACL Laboratories, Rosemont, IL
Supervisor Cytology Lab
ACL Laboratories is jointly operated by Wisconsin-based Aurora Health Care and
Advocate He
The California Society for Histotechnology will be hosting the 41st Annual
Symposium in San Jose May 19-21 at the Hilton. We are accepting abstracts
for workshops at this time.
Although it is the 41st we will be celebrating our 40th.
Please email me with your abstract.
jmacdonald...@gmail.com
Our policy is to not release any wet tissue except by subpoena, except for
purposes of burial, and then only released to a funeral director.
Terri L. Braud, HT(ASCP)
Anatomic Pathology Supervisor
Laboratory
Holy Redeemer Hospital
1648 Huntingdon Pike
Meadowbrook, PA 19046
ph: 215-938-3689
fax: 21
Hi Histoland,
I would love to hear from folks who are currently using the Primera slide
printers in your lab. We are working towards bringing them on line (networked)
and still have not worked out the physical bugs for printing and slide jamming.
We want to know some of the issues you have work
Never mind what other people do, just ask your legal department what to do
because this may involve legal consequences.René
On Wednesday, January 18, 2017 10:47 AM, Vanessa Keeton via Histonet
wrote:
Good Morning All!
I was wondering what everyone's policies were on releasing of pati
Good Morning All!
I was wondering what everyone's policies were on releasing of patient
tissue other than stones, placentas, and hardware. Normally we only
release stones, placentas, and hardware but have been receiving request for
other types of tissues lately and was just curious as to what the
Dear Histonetters,
My samples have been in formalin up to 3 years and there have been complaints
about poor staining. Please help me with solutions if there are any. My
controls have not been in formalin as long. The complaint has been with the
Alcian Blue pH2.5 and Saf O specifically.
The sampl