Hi Leah-
We leave the blade in behind the guard and we also lock the wheel when we leave
the microtome.
Nancy
Histology Coordinator
Dubuque, IA
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Message: 8
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:33:43 +1100
From: Leah Simmons leah_simmon...@hotmail.com
Left in but covered with the blade guard. Not spanking new, but usable
(for facing) get stored in an old box that the slides came in. I like the
slide mailer idea, and will switch to that.
--
Paula Sicurello, HTL (ASCP)
Supervisor, Clinical Electron Microscopy Laboratory
Duke University Health
I was taught that when leaving your microtome for any length of time to
always take the blade out. We had a tech that had the habit of leaving
the blade on her microtome and even though she had the safety guard up
someone from biomed still managed to lean on it and get cut (go
figure)
If
The rule here is a blade is cheaper than a cut. Anytime you are walking away
and returning within a few minutes to cut use the knife guard otherwise throw
the blade out. It is an accident looking to happen. Recently we had a tech
decide not use the knife guard and seriously cut himself by
AMEN TO THAT!
-Original Message-
From: Marcum, Pamela A [mailto:pamar...@uams.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 10:05 AM
To: McAnn, Sherrian; Paula Sicurello; Leah Simmons
Cc: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Subject: RE: [Histonet] Microtome Blade safety, in or out when not in
use?
I always take it out. You never know if someone will come along and do
something...
In our lab the mircrotomes do not strictly belong to any particular tech, and
they are used by different people at different times of day or different
shifts.
Tim Morken
Department of Pathology
UC San
We do not re-use the blades or leave them in the microtome it is against our
safety practices. We handle the blades twice, when we place them in the blade
holder and when we remove them and drop them into the sharps container.
Tom Podawiltz HT (ASCP)
Histology Section Head/Laboratory Safety
Hello all :-)
I am doing a quick microtome blade safety survey,
When you finish work, do you leave your blade in the microtome behind the blade
guard or do you take it out?
If you take it out and it is a new blade or a blade still useful for trimming
where do you store it?
Thank you for your
We save the blade to use for trimming. We store the blade in a plastic
5-slide mailer.
From: Leah Simmons leah_simmon...@hotmail.com
To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Date: 10/24/2013 06:36 PM
Subject:[Histonet] Microtome Blade safety, in
