I would like to start off by saying that I am a full-time Pathologists'
Assistant with 33 years experience. I started a side company about 15 years
ago to deal with issues such as this. We currently have a heated forceps jar
that by its design greatly reduces the chance of floaters/contaminants.
Even more exciting, we have a hands free, patent pending device coming out
in the Spring 2020 that will near totally if not completely eliminate the
occurrence of contaminants, both at the grossing bench and embedding
station.
Howard
Howard J. Leventhal, M.S., PA(ASCP)
Innovative Pathology Concepts, Inc.
how...@innovativepathology.com
www.innovativepathology.com
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 13:35:57 -0400
From: Garrey Faller
To: John Garratt
Cc: "Joe W. Walker, Jr." ,
"histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu"
Subject: Re: [Histonet] Tissue Contamination
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I agree with the comments made.
How do Histotechs mitigate the risk?
Do they use water? Do they just place the forceps back into the hot
well/holder at the embedder? What is the best way to ensure safe embedding
by the Histotech?
Although rare, contaminants do end up in blocks. The grosser says it?s the
Histotech at fault. The Histotech says it?s the grosser.
I once inspected a lab and I witnessed the use of a microbiology flame
sterilizer to sterilize the Histotech forceps between biopsies. Never seen
that before.
Garrey
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> On Aug 27, 2019, at 12:19 PM, John Garratt via Histonet
wrote:
>
> With regard to forceps: Do NOT use rat tooth or serrated forceps because
even with rinsing there is potential for micro fragments to be trapped and
carried over to the next sample. This also applies to forceps used at the
tissue embedding stage. It is all about mitigating of risk.
>
> John
>
> www.ciqc.ca
>
> ??? Original Message ???
>> On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 8:36 AM, Joe W. Walker, Jr. via Histonet
wrote:
>>
>> We utilize small, disposable absorbent pads, which also absorb the
formalin fumes. We obtain ours through Leica/former Surgipath. They work
well and are changed in between cases. Each case utilizes a new scalpel
blade and forceps are rinsed in water between cases. I am not aware of any
cross over of tissues between cases when utilizing these practices.
>>
>> Joe W. Walker, Jr. MS, SCT(ASCP)
>> Anatomical Pathology Manager
>> joewal...@rrmc.org, www.rrmc.org
>>
>> -Original Message-
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>> What are people doing to ensure that there is no tissue carry-over on
instruments between cases when grossing? Thank you.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD
>> Director, Histology & The Martin M. Berman, MD
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