We seperate biopsies and grossed tissue before grossing. They get into differently coloured cassettes, and different VIPs. The cassettes of the grossed tissue are put directly into the VIP baskets - short time dry, then put into a container with formalin. While grossing a report is written. So the order of the cassettes is mostly the same as the numbers on the report. Urgent cases have an extra colour. After embedding, the cassettes and the report are checked. Urgent cases are embedded first, then biopsies, grossed tissue is sorted according to the report not numbers. With slide-delivering we check sildes and report again. So mislabelled or missing cassettes and slides are identified. Gudrun
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-boun...@lists.utsouthwestern.edu] Im Auftrag von ba...@gundluth.org Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. August 2009 22:38 An: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Betreff: [Histonet] Organizing of cassettes for processing Hi all - For those that do batch overnight processing, how do you organize the cassettes? Currently we have 2 path assistants that gross throughout the day, and each puts their cassettes as they are grossed into a bucket of formalin. At the end of the day a histotech drains the formalin off, rinses the cassettes in water, then manually puts the cassettes into order according to our worklist, with rush cases being put up front. The baskets are then loaded onto the tissue processor (Sakura VIP5 and VIP6). We are wondering if there are some other ideas of how to streamline this process. One thought was to have the cassettes loaded/organized into the tissue processing basket as they are grossed, but have a concern about formalin exposure while doing this. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Barb Moe Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center La Crosse WI _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet