I am not a a big supporter of batch controls and managing that process.
Place a control section above patient sample, choosing 1 slide/case, prior to
moving slides to stain. Control always gets to pathologist that is reading
patient slides, assuming patient slides always get to pathologist and
There is an easy method to track batch controls using a blank slide. For each
case stained, file a blank slide that has been labeled with the actual case
number, the stain, and also the date of the control slide. Easy peasy. I
published this method in Histologic in Aug. 1995 and it has stood
I am a little confused about your batch control explanation. Do you mean to
put a piece of control tissue on every case slide?
Tasha Campbell, B.S.,HTL(ASCP)
Frederick Gastroenterology Associates
310 W. 9th St.
Frederick, MD 21701
301-695-6800 ext. 144
From:
I have a few suggestions:
Batch control - you do need to continue documentation of which cases/slides
corresponds to the one control and be able to provide for inspection or
re-review of a case. I suggest you consider taking pre-cut slide, add a new cut
control section (1 per case if there are
Morning Histonnetes:
Can somebody give your opinion on how to storage alcohol and formalin?
Is formalin consider corrosive that can't be storage together with alcohol?
What is your opinion?
Thanks for your help...
Blanca Lopez HT (ASCP)
Histotechnologist
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Harold C.
Hi everyone,
I have 2 questions:
1. Could someone please share some ways to keep track of the control that
goes with the slides that it was used for? So I am a small GI lab and there is
a pathologist here a couple days a week. We do trichrome on Microscopic
colitis cases and so I have
