[Histonet] RE: TAT for Transplant Biopsies

[Tony Reilly]

Hi Richard

This will depend on the working hours of your lab.  The hospital I work in now performs renal and liver transplants.   Clinicians know that they must have their biopsies in the lab by 1pm for a same day result including all of the special stains.  In this lab the lab staff work until 6pm but most pathologists are heading home between 5-5.30pm.

At a previous position the hospital performed heart and lung transplants.  That lab finished at 5.30pm for both lab and pathologist staff.  The cut off for same day result was 2pm.  The heart biopsies only required H&Es and while the lung biopsies needed an Orcein/H&E  and a Grocott.  We had developed a rapid Grocott stain (20 minutes)  which was completed before the H&E run on the stainer had finished.  All slides were with the pathologist before 5pm.


Genuine urgent cases were done out of hours but the clinician had to speak with the reporting pathologist to determine the degree of urgency.  Some renals will be totally completed if required and some will be a H&E result only.

Regards
Tony



Tony Reilly  B.App.Sc. , M.Sc.
Chief Scientist, Anatomical Pathology
Pathology Queensland-PA Laboratory
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From: histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu [mailto:histonet-bounces <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu] On Behalf Of Richard Cartun
Sent: Friday, 10 January 2014 10:47 AM
To: Tony Reilly; Histonet
Subject: [Histonet] TAT for Transplant Biopsies

For those of you seeing biopsies of transplant kidney, liver, and heart, what is your cut-off time for accepting a specimen for same-day processing?  Do any of you handle specimens at night, weekends, or holidays?  Thank you!



Richard



Richard W. Cartun, MS, PhD

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