Don’t shoot the messenger. :) Joe W. Walker, Jr. MS, SCT(ASCP) Anatomical Pathology and Interim Phlebotomy Manager Rutland Regional Medical Center 160 Allen Street, Rutland, VT 05701 P 802.747.1790 F 802.747.6525 [email protected], www.rrmc.org
-----Original Message----- From: Terri Braud via Histonet <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 7, 2020 8:42 AM To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Floaters [External Email] This email originated from outside of the organization. Think before you click: Don’t click on links, open attachments or respond to requests for sensitive information if the email looks suspicious or you don’t recognize the sender. 60% of floaters from the water bath? I find that really hard to believe. The Gephardt and Zarbo CAP study from 1996 showed reported the results of a Q-Probes study of 275 laboratories and documented a frequency of contamination of between 0.6% and 2.9%, depending on the study method. Their study demonstrated the rate of extraneous tissue contamination was higher for blocks than for slides and higher in a retrospective review than in a prospective study. So in other words, when people knew they were being studied, they were more careful and the contamination rate went down, but in retrospect, the majority of floaters occurred in the blocks, not the water bath. Terri L. Braud, HT(ASCP) Anatomic Pathology Supervisor HNL Labs, Holy Redeemer Hospital 1648 Huntingdon Pike Meadowbrook, PA 19046 ph: 215-938-3689 fax: 215-938-3874 Care, Comfort, and Heal Today's Topics: 1. "Floaters" in surgical or cytology specimens (Martha Ward-Pathology) 2. Re: "Floaters" in surgical or cytology specimens (Joe W. Walker, Jr.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 13:55:20 +0000 From: Martha Ward-Pathology <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [Histonet] "Floaters" in surgical or cytology specimens Message-ID: <b2cecb1b6665a4479056478f6de3c4ab01ad767...@exchdb6.medctr.ad.wfubmc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I am posting this question for a colleague in our Cytology department. How often do you see floaters on surgical or cytology specimens? Obviously we would never want to see any type of carryover but is there a standard rate published somewhere that he can reference? Thanks in advance for your help. Martha Ward, MT ASCP, QIHC Manager, Molecular Diagnostics Lab Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 17:41:11 +0000 From: "Joe W. Walker, Jr." <[email protected]> To: Martha Ward-Pathology <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Histonet] "Floaters" in surgical or cytology specimens Message-ID: <bl0pr11mb3155934b94c32b5358af2485bb...@bl0pr11mb3155.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://academic.oup.com/ajcp/article/136/5/767/1766314__;!!I87qwjxLstg3H_X5!rJ2yq9KcDC2PooORZtJvXi4R8vHOIg5tak39dSSWFLa5SL1M73A18pgYpUvPASA$ "Floaters represent a potential source of diagnostic error and occur in 0.01% to 1.2% of slides. Pick up of floaters from the water bath appears most common (?60%). Floaters in only 1 level and mismatch with the specimen tissue type are clues to the extraneous nature of the floater." Joe W. Walker, Jr. MS, SCT(ASCP) Anatomical Pathology and Interim Phlebotomy Manager Rutland Regional Medical Center 160 Allen Street, Rutland, VT 05701 P 802.747.1790 F 802.747.6525 [email protected], http://www.rrmc.org -----Original Message----- From: Martha Ward-Pathology via Histonet <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 4, 2020 8:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Histonet] "Floaters" in surgical or cytology specimens [External Email] This email originated from outside of the organization. Think before you click: Don?t click on links, open attachments or respond to requests for sensitive information if the email looks suspicious or you don?t recognize the sender. I am posting this question for a colleague in our Cytology department. How often do you see floaters on surgical or cytology specimens? Obviously we would never want to see any type of carryover but is there a standard rate published somewhere that he can reference? Thanks in advance for your help. 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