[Histonet] Processing Protocols

[Tony Reilly]

Hi Jessica

My advice would be to process your small biopsies during the day allowing depending on the times you use at least 2 runs per day.  One in the am and one in the pm.  Then run your large blocks over night as per usual.  Any late arriving small biopsies can be run on the am run the following day .  This way everything is processed within 24 hours of arrival maintaining your TATs.

Regards

Tony
Retired Histotragic

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> On 4 Aug 2021, at 4:46 am, Terri Braud via Histonet <histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:
> 
> We have encountered a similar problem with one of our two processors is down.  Shortening the longer schedule produced underprocessed fatty tissues and over processed biopsies, so we run the biopsies on the short schedule overnight, run a quick clean cycle, then the larger tissues on the 10hr schedule on the same instrument, pull the them off and leave them in the embedding unit to embed in the afternoon, or next morning.  It does put the larger tissue a day behind, but does not sacrifice the quality of the processing.  It you shorten your large tissue processing run so that you can run small biopsies with the bigger stuff, you will have to revalidate your IHC, so maybe this might be a better alternative.  Good luck, Terri
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> Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 10:34:11 +0000
> From: "Piche, Jessica" <Jessica.Piche at wtbyhosp.org>
> Subject: [Histonet] Processing protocols
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> Good Morning Everyone,
> Our pathologist wants us to shorten our large tissue processing run so that we can run small biopsies with the bigger stuff when one of our tissue processors are down. We have 2 Excelsiors. Would anyone like to share any protocols they might have for this purpose?
> Thank you!
> Jessica Piche, HT(ASCP}
> Waterbury Hospital Histology Lab
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