[Histonet] Blade Rationing

[Morken, Timothy]

"26 blocks per blade"

That's good. At the price we pay for blades that would be less than $11.00 per day per tech (150 blocks/day average), OR LESS THAN 20 MIN OF PAY PER TECH!! If they were limiting their blades, how many minutes would they spend trying to get good sections, or how expensive would mistakes be if something was missed due to poor sections?

However, I think some labs do try to save money this way. Our pathologists often comment how much better our output is thaN the consult slides we get -especially after we recut outside blocks and compare to the original slides. 

Tim Morken

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To: Teresa Moore
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Subject: Re: [Histonet] Blade Rationing

200 blocks per day / 3 techs = 66 blocks per day per tech 

66 blocks X 20 workdays a month = 1320 blocks a month

1320 blocks / 50 pack of blades = 26 blocks per blade

Resonable or not? You decide. 



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On Jun 17, 2013, at 5:10 PM, Teresa Moore <tmoore9k <@t> gmail.com> wrote:

> I work in a hospital, there are three of us on this particular shift 
> and we cut approx. 200 blocks, give or take a few.  Our histo lab 
> manager is telling us we should only be using one pack of blades (50 
> per pack) a month.  I'm wondering what other techs think of this 
> especially lab managers and supervisors.
> 
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