I would like to start off by saying that I am a full-time Pathologists' Assistant with 33 years experience. I started a side company about 15 years ago to deal with issues such as this. We currently have a heated forceps jar that by its design greatly reduces the chance of floaters/contaminants.
Even more exciting, we have a hands free, patent pending device coming out in the Spring 2020 that will near totally if not completely eliminate the occurrence of contaminants, both at the grossing bench and embedding station. Howard Howard J. Leventhal, M.S., PA(ASCP) Innovative Pathology Concepts, Inc. how...@innovativepathology.com www.innovativepathology.com -----Original Message----- From: histonet-requ...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-requ...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 1:00 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Histonet Digest, Vol 189, Issue 24 Send Histonet mailing list submissions to histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to histonet-requ...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu You can reach the person managing the list at histonet-ow...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Histonet digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Tissue Contamination (Garrey Faller) 2. 10% NBF Substitutes (Sandra Cheasty) 3. Xylene substitutes for clearing agents (Hagon, Christopher (Health)) 4. Re: Xylene substitutes for clearing agents (Ingles Claire) 5. New Job Opportunity - Histology Technician II - Frederick, MD (Mack Lloyd) 6. Re: Xylene substitutes for clearing agents (Rene J Buesa) 7. Start Fall with a Histology Position (Andrea Costello) 8. RELIA Histology Careers Bulletin. 8/28/2019 Opportunities On and Off the Bench! (Pam Barker) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:35:57 -0400 From: Garrey Faller <garr...@gmail.com> To: John Garratt <john.garr...@ciqc.ca> Cc: "Joe W. Walker, Jr." <jwwal...@rrmc.org>, "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Tissue Contamination Message-ID: <3e9f62c8-500f-44ab-9600-923762959...@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I agree with the comments made. How do Histotechs mitigate the risk? Do they use water? Do they just place the forceps back into the hot well/holder at the embedder? What is the best way to ensure safe embedding by the Histotech? Although rare, contaminants do end up in blocks. The grosser says it?s the Histotech at fault. The Histotech says it?s the grosser. I once inspected a lab and I witnessed the use of a microbiology flame sterilizer to sterilize the Histotech forceps between biopsies. Never seen that before. Garrey Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 27, 2019, at 12:19 PM, John Garratt via Histonet <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote: > > With regard to forceps: Do NOT use rat tooth or serrated forceps because even with rinsing there is potential for micro fragments to be trapped and carried over to the next sample. This also applies to forceps used at the tissue embedding stage. It is all about mitigating of risk. > > John > > www.ciqc.ca > > ??????? Original Message ??????? >> On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:36 AM, Joe W. Walker, Jr. via Histonet <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote: >> >> We utilize small, disposable absorbent pads, which also absorb the formalin fumes. We obtain ours through Leica/former Surgipath. They work well and are changed in between cases. Each case utilizes a new scalpel blade and forceps are rinsed in water between cases. I am not aware of any cross over of tissues between cases when utilizing these practices. >> >> Joe W. Walker, Jr. MS, SCT(ASCP) >> Anatomical Pathology Manager >> joewal...@rrmc.org, www.rrmc.org >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Cartun, Richard via Histonet histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu >> Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 2:48 PM >> To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu >> Subject: [Histonet] Tissue Contamination >> >> [External Email] This email originated from outside of the organization. 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