Terri L. Braud, HT(ASCP), Anatomic Pathology Supervisor at Holy Redeemer
Hospital in Meadowbrook PA notes:
>>Our policy calls for wiping of forceps with gauze between cases at gross
and at embedding. At gross, we use a disposable absorbent lined pad on the
cutting board for each larger case, and j
Hi Roy! The "Germinator 500" Sounds like something from Phineas and Ferb.
Hahaha.
Anyway - The mandate from CAP is designed to clean the instruments, not
sterilize them. If the instruments aren't cleaned before stuffing them into a
250'C trough of glass beads (the Germinator), you will just
before the next block is
sectioned.
After sectioning is finished, the flotation bath is emptied and dry cleaned.
René J.
--- On Mon, 3/26/12, Scott, Allison D wrote:
From: Scott, Allison D
Subject: [Histonet] Cross Contamination procedure flotation baths
To: "histonet@lists.utsouthwes
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
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When you run your stain place a blank slide in the rack and evaluate the slide
for any "floaters" label and file as you would a control slide.
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Hi Histonetters-
Our laboratory does not process gynecologic cytology specimens and we
have a relatively small number of non gynecologic specimens. Usually
when we process the non gynecologic cytology specimens, they are done
separately. I saw a CAP question which addresses prevention of cross
