Dear Tom Upgrade to the benchmark Ultra and your problem is solved as you can add and remove slides continuously throughout the day. There is no "run" and no need for cut offs. Our upgrade was cost neutral.
Regards Gary Gracie Senior Technical Officer IHC Laboratory Anatomical Pathology St Vincents Hospital Sydney, Australia Hello all, I am wondering how many places offer same-day staining of IHC. We are a small hospital based lab that averages about 70 IHC slides per week. We operate 5 days/week, 0600-1600. We give same day staining for IHC requests that are received by 10am and are using the Ventana Benchmark XT. Due to some issues that have developed, we may have to change the way we do things. With our current 10am cutoff plus possible pre-analytical changes the instrument will finish too late in the afternoon. The pathologists really like the same day service on IHC but I'm thinking that I may have to make the cutoff time earlier and anything after that will just have to wait. So I am wondering if anyone else of similar size, instrumentation, and workload, offers same-day staining for IHC. I appreciate your input. Thanks. Tom McNemar, HT(ASCP) Histology Co-ordinator Licking Memorial Health Systems (740) 348-4163 (740) 348-4166 tmcne...@lmhealth.org<mailto:tmcne...@lmhealth.org> www.LMHealth.org<file:///C:\Documents%20and%20Settings\TMCNEMAR\Application%20Data\Microsoft\Signatures\www.LMHealth.org> ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been virus scanned and although no viruses were detected by the system, St Vincents & Mater Health Sydney accepts no liability for any consequential damage resulting from email containing any computer viruses. ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet