Re: [Histonet] H & E QC

2010-03-25 Thread Malika Benatti
Hi there, HE QC should be carry out on every slides that are stained, if you are checking for the staining intensity, this will be carried out using a control slide on new batch of staining solution, commercial or house made. Batch number should be recorded, and slides labelled with batch refer

RE: [Histonet] H & E QC

2010-03-24 Thread WILLIAM DESALVO
Whether you are using an automated stainer or hand staining, run a control slide and review before any patient samples are stained. I also suggest that only start or endpoint QC is not enough and you should consider incorporating continuous QC/QA at regular intervals for the stain set-up, to en

Re: [Histonet] H & E QC

2010-03-24 Thread Sue
We have automatic stainers, so after the stainer is set up a slide with a micro-array is run. This slide is checked by the histologists and logged in. The next slides run are our rapid cases. A log sheet is prepared and handed to the pathologist with the slides and they are graded for processi