[Histonet] Exhaust Block

[teresajharris <@t> msn.com]

It is a pleasure to hear what other histotech's are asked to do by the pathologist.  I, too, am asked to exhaust the block.  After I exhaust the block, it gets sent out for a second opinion.  I really don't know the reasons why, just know what I am asked to do.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Deltour, Douglas D.(HM2) 
  To: 'Cindy DuBois' ; histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu 
  Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:49 PM
  Subject: RE: [Histonet] Exhaust Block


  It sounds like he is doing the overkill CYA thing. Was he ever a Navy
  Pathologist?

  HM2(FMF) Douglas D. Deltour 
  Naval Hospital Sigonella Italy 
  LPO Histology 
  Histology Technician 
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  -----Original Message-----
  From: Cindy DuBois [mailto:ccdub <@t> earthlink.net]
  Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 8:51 PM
  To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
  Subject: [Histonet] Exhaust Block


  We have a pathologist who recently decided that if the specimen doesn't show
  a disease process (ie, no pathological abnormality) we must "exhaust the
  block".  This means (to him) to make 3 additional levels (H&E's), then cut
  through the rest of the tissue leaving nothing in the block.  We are suppose
  to do this to keep the patient or referring physician from requesting
  further testing on the block.  So far we only have to do this with skin
  biopsies, but I am afraid he will soon want it for everything else.  This is
  extremely time consuming!

  Do other labs out there do this?  I am just curious.

  Cindy DuBois, HT ASCP
  Delta Pathology Assoc.
  Stockton, CA 


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