[Histonet] Fungus contamination on AFB slides

Hello to all in histoland. We are currently having a problem with candida on our AFB slides. We are doing the stain by hand due to the unavailability of the AFB kits from ventana. We are using bottled sterile water for rinses and the slides are not being put in coplin jars for staining. All

[Histonet] PA Competency

Hello to all in histoland. Does any one have a competency evaluation for a Pathologist Assistant that they would be willing to share. Any help in this would be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital 713-566-5287(Lab) 713-566-2148(Office) CONFIDENTIAL

[Histonet] Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Hello to all in histoland. Does anyone have a procedure for handling creutzfeldt-jakob disease. Any help will be appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital 713-566-5287(Lab) 713-566-2148(Office) CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, pleas

[Histonet] Peloris Processor

Hello to all in histoland. Does anyone have a SOP on how to operate the Peloris processor? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital 713-566-5287(Lab) 713-566-2148(Office) CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, p

[Histonet] Tissue Processor Validation Procedure

Hello to all in Histoland. Does anyone have a tissue processor validation procedure that they would be willing to share? Any help in this would be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital 713-566-5287(Lab) 713-566-2148(Office) CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If yo

[Histonet] Performance Improvement Indicators

Happy Friday to all in histoland. What type of indicators are you guys tracking for PI reports(tat, specimen quality). I am looking to track more that FStat and specimen quality. Any help with this will be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital 713-56

[Histonet] Reccomended temperature for storing blocks and slides

Happy Friday to everyone. Does anyone know what the recommended temperature is for storing blocks and slides? Your help in this would be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital 713-566-5287(Lab) 713-566-2148(Office) CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have r

[Histonet] Body Release and Cleanin in Morgue

Hello to all in histo-land. Who takes care of releasing the body to the funeral home and who does the cleaning of the seals and the molds on the drawers for the body storage? Is lab some how involved in this process? Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Supervisor, Histology Lab LBJ Hospital Harris Health

[Histonet] Procedure for storage and labeling of formalin

Hello to all in histoland. Does any one have a procedure for storage and labeling of formalin? Any help would be appreciated Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Supervisor, Histology Lab LBJ Hospital Harris Health System Office: 713-566-2148 Lab: 713-566-5287 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received

[Histonet] Nail processing

Happy Friday to all. I hope everyone has a great weekend. I am I need of a procedure for processing nails. We are having problems with keeping the nails on during gms special staining. We are using the ventana machine not by hand. I remember a procedure that used nair, it has been along tim

[Histonet] Faxitron Xray digital imaging

Hello to all in histoland. Our chief pathologist is interested in getting a faxitron xray digital imaging machine. Is anyone out there using this technology and can you suggest a company in which to order one from. Any help in this will be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Super

[Histonet] FW: The results of your email commands

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[Histonet] Novec 7100 Engineerd Fluid

Hello to all in histoland. Is there anyone using the Novec 7100 fluid for freezing frozen blocks in a low temp freezing bath. We were getting it from fisher but they have discontinued it. I am trying to find another vendor. Any help will be appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Supervisor,

[Histonet] Carnoys solution

Hello to all in histoland. Does anyone have a carnoys recipe that does not have call for chloroform? I had a recipe for one, but now I can't find it. Any and all help will be appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Supervisor, Histology Lab LBJ Hospital Harris Health System Office: 713-566-2148 L

[Histonet] Free standing outpatient surgery center

Hello to all in histo land. In January we will have an outpatient surgery center that will have a frozen section lab located there. We are now in the stages of figuring out how we will get specimens from there to our main histology lab. Is there anyone out there that has the same sort of set

[Histonet] Formalin

Hello to all in histoland. Happy Friday. Last week we were inspected by a new group of surveyors that are like JCAHO called DNV. They said that we had to much formalin stored in our gross room. We had 15 gallons. They told us that we could only have 2 gallons there at a time. I have never

[Histonet] Waste Alcohol

Hello to all in histoland. Is there anyone putting alcohol into a waste drum like for xylene. We have a company that takes away our xylene. Now the safety people are suggesting that we treat the alcohol the same way. We have always poured the alcohol down the drain. It seems very expensive.

[Histonet] Histology Laboratory Assistant Competency

Hello to all in histoland. Does anyone have a histology lab assistant competency checklist that they would be willing to share. I am in need of one. Thanks in advance. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Texas CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-

[Histonet] Employee productivity

Hello to all in histoland. How is employee productivity calculated. I have my techs fill out a workload tally sheet daily. My boss wants me to take the data and come up with a productivity chart or graph that says who is productive or not. I don't need a tally sheet to say who is working or

[Histonet] Varistain 24-4 Stainer Manual

Hello to all in histoland. Does anyone have a maual for the Varistain 24-4 stainer? I have a friend looking for one. Any help in this will be appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Texas 77026 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in

[Histonet] Productivity Reports

Hello to all in histoland. Does any one have to do productivity reports for their boss. If so, what are you using for your unit of measure to say if your techs are being productive. My boss is really into the numbers, graphs and charts. I have a my techs fill out a workload recording form.

[Histonet] Email address for Clifford M. Chapman

Hello to all in histoland. Does anyone have the email address for Clifford M. Chapman, technical director for Strata Pathology Services. He gave a webinar today on Quality Management for the Histology Lab. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Texas CONFIDENTIALIT

[Histonet] GMS on Toenail

Hello to all in histoland. We have a stubborn toenail that keeps coming off when we try to do a GMS stain on the ventana machine. Any suggestions on how to keep the section on the slide during the staining procedure. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Texas CONF

[Histonet] Specimen Identity Procedure

Hello again to all in histoland. Does anyone have a procedure for describing the system for maintaining the identity of every specimen through processing and block and slide preparation. This is on the CAP checklist (ANP.21050). Any help will be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) H

[Histonet] Slippery Floor due to paraffin

Hello to all in histoland. What are histology labs doing to combat the slipperiness of the floor due to paraffin. Are you using rugs, peel away films ? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Texas 77026 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTI

[Histonet] Cross Contamination procedure flotation baths

Hello to all in histoland. Does anyone have a cross contamination procedure for the water bath that they would be willing to share. Any help in this will be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Texas 77026 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have r

[Histonet] Rusting of paraffin reservoir

Hello to all I histoland. I just discovered that my first paraffin pot has a hole in it due to rust. And of course all of the paraffin overtime had leaked out. Does anyone have a idea what may have contributed to this happening? I think that it had to do with some condensation. We have had

[Histonet] Hirschprung Protocol

Hello to all in histoland. Does anyone have the cutting protocol for a hirschprung biopsy. Your help in this matter will be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately noti

[Histonet] General orientation checklist

Does anyone have a general orientation checklist for new hires that they would be willing to share . Thanks in advance Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Texas 77026 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the s

[Histonet] Alcian blue on the Ventana/Cryoembedding Apparatus

Hello to all in histo land. For those of you that have the ventana special stains machine, can the alcian blue 2.5 be done on the machine? I am not sure if they have kits for this stain. Also is anyone using the cryoembedding apparatus from pathology innovations? Thanks in advance. Allison

[Histonet] Audible alarm

Hello to all in histoland. We recently had a issue withour tissue processor in regards to a power outage. Once the popwer came back on the processor was in a power out stage and did not process our blocks. Does any one have an external alarm attached to their tissue processor that would alarm in

[Histonet] Benchmark Information

Hello to all in histoland. I am currently trying to find a hospital that is comparable to ours for benchmark info. We a 260 bed county hospital and we are currently processing 10,000 plus cases and have 4 techs,1 supervisor and 1 assistant. If there is anyone comparable to us I would like to hav

[Histonet] Surgipath VCP cassette printer

We have a old surgipath VCP cassette printer that is not working due to the print head going out. We have had this unit for some time. Leica has since taken over Surgipath, and they no longer support this particular unit. Does anyone know where I can get a replacement printhead for this unit. Thi

[Histonet] AP Benchmarks

Hello to all in histoland. Does anyone know a website where you can get AP benchmark information. I am in need of information to justify a new position in histology. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Texas 77026 CONFIDENTIALI

[Histonet] Freezing bath solutions

Hello to all in histoland. What type of solutions are being used if any to freezze your chucks for frozen sections. Our sister hospital is using methyl butane and there was a flash fire last week. We use the same solution. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) His

[Histonet] CAP Inspection

Hello to all in histoland. I would like thank everyone that helped me out with procedures. I really appreciate it. Our CAP was today. We had no deficiencies. Now I can have my life back. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Texas 77026 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: I

[Histonet] FW: Slide labeling procedure

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[Histonet] Sentinel Lymp Node Procedure

Hello to all in histoland. Does anyone have a procedure for sentinel lymph nodes that they would be willing to share. I am revamoing mine. We are in our CAP window. Looking for them in the next 2 weeks. Any help will be appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Hous

[Histonet] Checks and balances for specimen accessioning

Hello to all in histoland. What types of checks and balances do you have in place for specimen accessioning. We had a incidcent where I was accessioning a case and I did not catch that the name on the container was different from the name on the requisition. The resident grossing did not catch i

[Histonet] Microwave Usage, Monitoring procedure

Hello to all in histoland. I am in need of a procedure for the usgae, monitoring and container venting of the mcrowave. I have a procedure that I wrote several years ago, but my boss wants it updated. Any help will be appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston

[Histonet] H&E Stain

Hello to all in histoland and Happy New Year. We are having issues with our H&E stain. The nuclei are staining very blue to purple and the mucin is staining blue to purple-blue. It is difficult to see the nuclear detail. The mucin is obscuring things. We have not changed our process for staini

[Histonet] Workload Recording

Hello to all in histoland. Does anyone keep a log of how many blocks that their techs cut. My boss asked me do I keep this type of information. Anyone doing workload recording? Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in er

[Histonet] Procedure for Xylene and Formalin Monitoring

Hello to all in Histoland. I hope that eveyone had a good Thaksgiving. Does any one have a procedure for when you have your lab gets monitored for xylene and formalin levels. Any help would be appreciated. I am asking for another supervisor. On the anatomic checklist youhave to have evidenc

[Histonet] Frozen Section TAT

Hello to all in histoland. How is everyone calculating the FS TAT. Does any anyone have a file that automatically calculates that tat when you plug in the data, that they would be willing to share. Any help would be appreciated. Allison Scott Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital. CONFIDENTIALITY

[Histonet] Eosin to dye small Biopsies

Hello to all in histoland. Are any of you using eosin on the processor to dye your small bx's? If so, are you putting it in the 100% alcohol to do so? Any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Texas 77026 CONFIDENTIAL

[Histonet] QC log

Hello to all in histoland. Does anyone have a QC log sheet that documents the H&E stain, microtomy, floaters and other issues that they would be willing to share with me. Any help in this matter will be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Tex

[Histonet] Cap Question: 2 identifiers for slides

Is is a CAP requirement to have 2 identifiers on surgical slides? Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Texas 77026 713-566-5287 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this e-ma

[Histonet] Higgins Ink

Hello to all in histo land. Our PA used Higgins ink (india ink) on some skin specimens and set the ink with 10%acetic acid soln. After the specimens were processed, all of the ink was gone, washed off. We have regular alcohols and xylene on the processor, this should not have made the ink wash o

[Histonet] Communication when pathologist are not in same area as lab

Hello to all in histoland. What are you doing to minimize the communication breakdown, when the pathologist are not housed in the lab. We will be moving to a new lab and the pathologist will not be in the new bldg with us. They will be in the old building next door. Are you relying upon email and

[Histonet] FW: Reticulin Stain

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[Histonet] Reticulin Stain

Hello to all in histoland. We are having a problem with our reticulin stain. It is not showing a real delination of the reticulin fibers. They are there but it tends to fade off.We do the brown and hopps stain. Any help would be appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ H

[Histonet] Accessioning and Grossing Alike Specimens

What policies do you have in place for accessioning and grossing specimens that are alike, especiall biopsy specimens. It has been my experience that you should not have alike specimens back to back. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital 5656 Kelley Houston, Texas 77026 713-

[Histonet] Competency Checkoff

Does anyone have a competency check off for histology techs that they would be willing to share. Thanks in advance Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital 5656 Kelley Houston, Texas 77026 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify

[Histonet] Dual Locations

Hello to everyone in histoland. We are currently building a new medical tower next to the hospital. Our histology lab will be moving there, but the existing frozen section area will remain in the main hospital. How are those with multiple sites dealing with staffing and specimen and slide flow.

[Histonet] Paraffin Accumulation on floor

How is everyone dealing with the accumulation and tracking of paraffin problems. We have mats on the floor where we cut and embed. We also have the mats that you walk on and it takes the paraffin off of the bottom of your shoes and you peel off a layer a day. Our medical director wants us to fin

[Histonet] Progressive counseling

Hello to all in histoland. I had to come out of the box for this question. What types of criteria do you have for verbal and written counseling, as pertaining to histology functions. Any help in this will be helpful. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Texas 7702

[Histonet] Paraffin Disposal

Happy New Year to all. How are you all disposing the paraffin that comes off of the tissue processor? Do you consider it as biohazard waste and disposing it as such or are you putting it into the regular trash disposal? I have been asked why I am disposing it the way I do. I consider it as bioha

[Histonet] Fungus/PCP controls

Hello to all in histoland. Is there anyone willing to share a fungus and a pcp block with me. We always run a fungus and pcp control slide that has both tissues on it for our cytology cases. Our blocks are depleted. I also have commerical controls for fungus and pcp. We just have a control slid

[Histonet] SWOT Analysis

Hello to all in histoland. Have any of you had to do a swot analysis of your lab. I am in the process of doing one for my lab. It makes one think. What are your thoughts on this. Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail

[Histonet] Processing Whole prostate

Hello to all in histoland. For those who are doing whole mounts for prostate, be willing to share the process with me. My lab is looking into to doing this. I would need to know the euipment used and processing times. Your help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Allison Scott HT(ASC

[Histonet] Whole Prostate Processing

Hi to all in histoland. For those of you doing whole prostate processing, could you share the process with me. Our lab is thinking about doing this. I would need a list of equipment that is required as well as processing times. At the present time I only have 2 processors, and they both run eve

[Histonet] Wholemount processing

Hello to all in histoland. My lab is looking to start processing whole prostate specimens and doing the wholemount process. Can anyone give me a starting point on how to proceed. I would need information on processing times, embedding and cutting equipment, staining information and the glass t

[Histonet] Reagent Labeling Policy

Does anyone have a reagent labeling policy that they would be willing to share. Thanks in advance Allison Scott HT(ASCP) Histology Supervisor LBJ Hospital Houston, Texas 77026 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender by return e-mail

[Histonet] Cap checklist question

I have a question concerning CAP checklist question ANP.11665. Are . there written procedures for processing specimens. Is this referring to tech's or to residents that are grossing. We only have pathology residents grossing and taking care of specimens. What are predictive markers, this refers t

[Histonet] PI Reports

Happy New Year to all. I would like to know what type of PI reports that are done in your labs. I am looking to find more than the 3 I currently do. Frozen section tat, specimen discrepancy and I was monitoring our immuno tat since we send them out. Also how are you doing your frozen section