[Histonet] IHC turn around time

[Gary Gracie]

Dear Tom

Upgrade to the benchmark Ultra and your problem is solved as you can add and remove slides continuously throughout the day. There is no "run" and no need for cut offs. Our upgrade was cost neutral.

Regards

Gary Gracie
Senior Technical Officer
IHC Laboratory
Anatomical Pathology
St Vincents Hospital
Sydney, Australia


Hello all,

I am wondering how many places offer same-day staining of IHC.  We are a small hospital based lab that averages about 70 IHC slides per week.  We operate 5 days/week, 0600-1600.  We give same day staining for IHC requests that are received by 10am and are using the Ventana Benchmark XT.   Due to some issues that have developed, we may have to change the way we do things.

With our current 10am cutoff plus possible pre-analytical changes the instrument will finish too late in the afternoon.  The pathologists really like the same day service on IHC but I'm thinking that I may have to make the cutoff time earlier and anything after that will just have to wait.

So I am wondering if anyone else of similar size, instrumentation, and workload, offers same-day staining for IHC.  I appreciate your input.  Thanks.


Tom McNemar, HT(ASCP)
Histology Co-ordinator
Licking Memorial Health Systems
(740) 348-4163
(740) 348-4166
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