[Histonet] Reprocessing tissue

[Perl , Alison]

Hi Cassie
How often is this happening? We have done it this way, with no ill effects on the processor, but it comes up maybe once every few months - if you have to reprocess tissue daily or weekly, I could see it adding up to a problem. We melt the block, blot the tissue and cassette with gauze to remove as much paraffin as possible, then put in the rack with new work, and usually comes out fine.

Alison Perl, HTL(ASCP)CM
Anatomic Pathology Manager 
CareMount Medical
(914) 302-8424
aperl at caremount.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Cassie P. Davis via Histonet [mailto:histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 03, 2019 1:32 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Histonet] Reprocessing tissue

Has anyone had success with just melting down unfaced, underprocessed blocks for reprocessing and sticking them in NBF for processing without taking them through the clean cycle? The senior tech is doing this and I am concerned about our processor getting paraffin in the NBF and other things.

Cassie Davis

Email:  CDavis at che-east.org<mailto:CDavis at che-east.org>





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