[Histonet] CAP Guidelines for Microwaves

Fri Mar 24 10:54:33 CST 2006

Greg;
  That is essentially my point. In the same way that you never would try to enter the Monaco race with a small FIAT 600 (but with a Porsche) you should never try to do things with a household MW oven that will require a lab designed one.
  Things I did (for years) with my 2 MW ovens: dry slides, all sorts of boosts to special stains, heating the citrate buffer before the HIER procedure and things of that sort.
  Never to process tissue (although I had to confess some "indiscretionts in that realm").
  Regarding durability, my MW was used for more than 10 years continuously.
  Regarding reproducibility: it CAN be obtained as long as you calibrate it and know their capabilities [I even published a paper on that topic].
  Now to the original question about CAP regulations and household MW ovens: the answre and approach from their point of view is the same: "do NOT used them" [for that purpose].
  René J.

"Luck, Greg D." <LuckG <@t> empirehealth.org> wrote:
  Oh Why Not,

I've taken the position (that from the CAP comment section of this question)
that use of a non commercial grade microwave is still safe and usable
provided you limit its use to heating of reagents such as PBS, agar, and
tris or citrate buffers.

Greg Luck
Anatomic Pathology Supervisor
Deaconess Med Center / EHS
800 W. 5th Ave
Spokane, WA 99204
Phone 509.473.7394
Fax 509.473.7133
luckg <@t> empirehealth.org

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Subject: RE: [Histonet] CAP Guidelines for Microwaves

Heating Bouin's is an issue, I would think. 

Jeanine Bartlett, BS, HT(ASCP)
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Subject: Re: [Histonet] CAP Guidelines for Microwaves

Are any of the chemicals we heat in our microwaves toxic? I don't think most
special stains solutions fall in that catagory. That's the first question to
answer before getting to wrapped up in this ventilation issue? 

Angela Bitting, HT(ASCP)
Technical Specialist, Histology
Geisinger Medical Center
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>>> "Joe Nocito" 3/23/2006 7:42 PM >>>

but what about using a table top fume absorber with charcoal filters? CAP
writes these questions so ambiguously that it becomes a joke. This is the
main reason why I have a negative attitude towards CAP.

Joe
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Subject: RE: [Histonet] CAP Guidelines for Microwaves

> Joe:
> It is not external ventilation to the MW oven what CAP wants, is a vent 
> connected from the microwave to an outlet and there is not a single 
> household MW oven with that characteristec so, for all practical purposes 
> the mensage keeps being: don't use them (the household appliance) for 
> histology work, specially if tissue processing is the objective of the 
> use.
> René J.
>
> Joe Nocito wrote:
> I don't believe CAP is saying not to use them. They are saying use them
> safely with ventilation and make sure they don't leak radiation.
>
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> Helayne:
> In short, the message from CAP is: "do not use them!"
> Unfortunate though!
> René J.
>
> "Parker, Helayne" wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone new what CAP require of us if we have a common
> household microwave that we use for special stains.
>
> Helayne Parker,HT (ASCP)
> Histology Section Head
> Skaggs Community Health Center
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