Our hospital has a policy against releasing soft tissue to anyone except a funeral home. Realizing that some religions require one to be buried with all their body parts, release to a funeral home meets those requirements without someone finding human remains years down the road, with no record.
Terri L. Braud, HT(ASCP) Anatomic Pathology Supervisor Laboratory Holy Redeemer Hospital 1648 Huntingdon Pike Meadowbrook, PA 19046 ph: 215-938-3689 fax: 215-938-3874 Care, Comfort, and Heal -----Original Message----- From: histonet-requ...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-requ...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2017 1:00 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Histonet Digest, Vol 161, Issue 8 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. Return of Gross Only Specimens for Patient Use (ian bernard) 2. Re: Return of Gross Only Specimens for Patient Use (Cartun, Richard) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2017 12:38:31 -0600 From: "ian bernard" <ian.bern...@comcast.net> To: <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Subject: [Histonet] Return of Gross Only Specimens for Patient Use Message-ID: <007001d2b097$533a5dd0$f9af1970$@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 1. Per a patient request, before returning an amputated digit (toe) to a patient, we will remove the 10 % NBF from the tissue by washing the tissue in running water for how long? 2. As an alternative, we can have the provider submit the gross only toe in saline and then relinquish the toe to the patient, explaining that ultimate degradation of the toe is inevitable unless fixed. Is there another safe fixative alternative that can preserve the toe, say 100% alcohol and for how long? The patient wants to keep his body parts for his burial. 3. We will have the patient sign a document explaining the exposure risk to formalin fixed tissue as well as a release of medical records request form. Your thoughts? 4. Is there any other validated procedure to remove formalin from foreign bodies devices or tissue before release to the patient? Note: The transaction above will take place 2-weeks after the case has been signed out and reported to the referring provider. Your feedback? v/r IB ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2017 14:32:17 +0000 From: "Cartun, Richard" <richard.car...@hhchealth.org> To: ian bernard <ian.bern...@comcast.net> Cc: "histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu" <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Return of Gross Only Specimens for Patient Use Message-ID: <9215bd4b0ba1b44d962a71c758b68d2e95415...@hhcexchmb03.hhcsystem.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I strongly discourage patients from taking their tissue out of the hospital. Once the specimen in placed in formalin it becomes a bio-hazard. We will release certain specimens for burial; however, the patient (or family) must contact a funeral home or mortuary to pick-up the specimen, and they must sign a release. Richard Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD Immunopathology & Morphologic Proteomics Laboratory Director, Biospecimen Collection Programs Assistant Director, Anatomic Pathology Hartford Hospital 80 Seymour Street Hartford, CT 06102 (860) 972-1596 (860) 545-2204 Fax -----Original Message----- From: ian bernard via Histonet [mailto:histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2017 2:39 PM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] Return of Gross Only Specimens for Patient Use 1. Per a patient request, before returning an amputated digit (toe) to a patient, we will remove the 10 % NBF from the tissue by washing the tissue in running water for how long? 2. As an alternative, we can have the provider submit the gross only toe in saline and then relinquish the toe to the patient, explaining that ultimate degradation of the toe is inevitable unless fixed. Is there another safe fixative alternative that can preserve the toe, say 100% alcohol and for how long? The patient wants to keep his body parts for his burial. 3. We will have the patient sign a document explaining the exposure risk to formalin fixed tissue as well as a release of medical records request form. Your thoughts? 4. Is there any other validated procedure to remove formalin from foreign bodies devices or tissue before release to the patient? Note: The transaction above will take place 2-weeks after the case has been signed out and reported to the referring provider. Your feedback? v/r IB _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. 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