Safety Forgotten Part 2 – Air Quality

Safety Forgotten Part 2 – Air Quality

In Part 1 of this series the emphasis was on basic personal safety practices that are so elementary that they are often overlooked.  In this second part our focus is on air quality and the ‘assumed’ environmental safety of the laboratory.  Because of chronic exposure...
Safety Forgotten

Safety Forgotten

While the histopathology laboratory has progressively become more efficient, with a vast diversity in applications and techniques, the replication and monotony of routine tasks have caused some of the most basic safety and security practices to become overlooked or...
The Benefits of On-Site Storage

The Benefits of On-Site Storage

The continuous accumulation of biological specimens in diagnostic anatomic pathology, make the inevitable need for ‘off-site’ storage (OSS) a reality.  When the remodeling of rooms/space begins to become a repetitive, every 6 months, project. When the funding for new...
A Simple Approach to H&E Stain Optimization

A Simple Approach to H&E Stain Optimization

Within the realm of the clinical Histopathology laboratory (hospital or reference lab), the Hematoxylin & Eosin stain has become a procedural doctrine; validated and written in stone, and rarely, if ever, changed or modified. Typically, this only happens when a...
Right Tissue – Wrong Cassette

Right Tissue – Wrong Cassette

In today’s Histopathology laboratory, particularly large volume labs, tissue cassette selection and use has been standardized down to one or two models of cassette; chosen to accommodate the general tissue(s) they work with. With labs predominately working with breast...