[Histonet] biopsy "bags" for processing - alternatives

[Marcum, Pamela A]

We have no Histologist in the Gross Room and path assistants often do the biopsies as they meet CLIA guidelines for this.  The residents are required to do certain biopsies and we have no control over it.  The argument has been raging now for years and it is what it is so we live with it.  You and others may disagree (as I do) however; we are not the ones making those choices.  

Pam

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From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Rene J Buesa
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Subject: Re: [Histonet] biopsy "bags" for processing - alternatives

We never ever allowed the residents to wrap anything. They were instructed to leave everything in the sample bottle and later the histotech decided what to do. If there were many small pieces we filtered the sample through a tissue paper and processed it folded. Sometimes we used empty tea bags with very good results.
René J.  


On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 11:25 AM, "Morken, Timothy" <Timothy.Morken <@t> ucsfmedctr.org> wrote:
  


All knowing Histonet,

Our grossing staff uses nylon "biopsy bags" to enclose some biopsy specimens. The embedding staff find them troublesome because when they pull the bags open they tend to "pop" open and throw the tissue off in all directions. They have to be very careful opening these. Is there another bag made of some other material that is less prone to this problem?

For various reasons some of these samples can't be put on sponges. They do wrap some in flat biopsy paper, but not others. It seems to be a grossing personal preference more than anything else.

Thanks for any and all info!

Tim Morken
Supervisor, Histology, Electron Microscopy and Neuromuscular Special Studies UC San Francisco Medical Center Box 1656
505 Parnassus Ave
San Francisco, CA 94143
USA

415.514-6042  (office)
tim.morken <@t> ucsfmedctr.org<mailto:tim.morken <@t> ucsfmedctr.org>


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