If you're not, use actual ice to cool and hydrate, works better than cold
plate, etc.
Cool and soak the heck out of your bxs, like, rough cut them and go to
breakfast. Seriously, like 30 minutes on ice, and they'll cut like butter.
Try raising the temperature of your water bath 2-3 degrees.
These work pretty well to keep wax from being spread around too much.
https://www.grainger.com/product/PLASTICOVER-Floor-Protection-Mats-45MT85
Place them strategically in thresholds and high traffic areas.
Unlike the blue semi-permanent ones you mentioned, which break down, when
these get
After a ba-zillion years in Histology, I've found there is no substitution for
having the floors stripped every 2 weeks. The trick is NOT to apply floor wax
after stripping. We've also been currently using mats in key areas where the
most traffic is. This prevents wax from being ground into
We use some of this clear vinyl, like you'd see in a walk in fridge... get the
wide stuff and cut it out to fit under a cutting station. It completely saves
the floors and when it's trashed out we can just throw it away, get he floors
cleaned and put some more down... works great for me.
What does your institution do to mitigate paraffin collection on the floors? Do
you strip the floors at defined periods of time? Do you use mats throughout
entire laboratory, under microtomy stations? Currently our institution uses a
sticky plastic green flooring, which is ripped up every
I have been having a terrible time with small folds in my colon bxs. They tend
to be perpendicular to the cutting edge and i have tried all the standard ways
to get rid of them. My Dr says that the sections are fine and that they don't
effect the diagnosis but i would really like to figure out
