[Histonet] Frozen Sections Slides per Day Question

[tahseen <@t> brain.net.pk]

Dear Soofia Sissiqui,
25 blocks (12 slides for each block with 3-4 sections)as per Welcan Units
code # 5019 entire day ( 8 hours 480 minte)
Muhammad Tahseen
Histology Supervisor
SKMTH&RC Lahore Pakistan


> Hi dear histology experts,
> I will greatly appreciate if somebody can let me know the estimated number
> of slides (with 3 sections per slide) per day on average a lab technician
> can cut (of frozen tissue).
>  
> I am a lab technician ( not a histotech) and work alone in a highly
> complex testing specialzed low volume dermatology lab.My job
> description includes 30 % of immunohistochemistry related dutites.  I cut
> skin frozen sections and do immunohistochemistry  manually for several
> years . My routiene panel consists of 12 antibodies for  T-cells  surface
> markers. Ocassionally  I add another panel of 8 antibodies for B-Cells.
> I am very slow in cutting sections and strugle a lot to get good sections.
> If I spend entire day ( 8 hours) just  cutting  3-4 section on each slide
> with slow speed. What  number of slides should be considered as efficent
> cutting?
> What number of blocks (12 slides for each block with 3-4 sections) should
> I finish in one day?
>  
> Help me please if you can. Thanks. Soofia
>  
>
>
>
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