Dear Histologists,
After you have completed sectioning for the day do you remove the blade? Is it
safer to keep the blade locked in place? Is it a safety issue? Or is it a
policy set by your workplace?
Thanks,
Patricia M. Zerfas
National Institutes of Health
Bldg 28A Room 112 MSC 5230
9000
NEVER leave a blade in a microtome when not sectioning!
Sincerely,
Jay A. Lundgren, M.S., HTL
(ASCP)
On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Zerfas, Patricia (NIH/OD/ORS) [E] via
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Subject: [Histonet] Microtome Blade safety, in or out when not in use?
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Hello all :-)
I am doing a quick microtome blade
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.
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Paula Sicurello, HTL (ASCP)
Supervisor, Clinical Electron Microscopy Laboratory
Duke University Health
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Subject: Re: [Histonet] Microtome Blade safety, in or out when not in
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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
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Subject: RE: [Histonet] Microtome Blade safety, in or out when not in use?
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
AMEN TO THAT!
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Francisco Medical Center
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AMEN TO THAT!
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From: Marcum, Pamela A [mailto:pamar...@uams.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 10:05 AM
To: McAnn, Sherrian; Paula Sicurello
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
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Date: 10/24/2013 06:36 PM
Subject:[Histonet] Microtome Blade safety
Hi,
One of our pathologists is going on a volunteer mission to a pathology lab in
Malawi, Africa in a few weeks, and he is looking for donations of low profile
microtome blades for the histology lab there. He said they will need around
200 blades or so, but any amount would help. He leaves
Do they take volunteer histos, :) I would love to do somethig like that.
Nicole
Hi,
One of our pathologists is going on a volunteer mission to a pathology lab
in Malawi, Africa in a few weeks, and he is looking for donations of low
profile microtome blades for the histology lab there.
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