Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a rapidly progressive dementia associated with an incompletely characterized transmissible agent known as a prion. Although the infection in routine processing appears to be extremely low, cases of suspected and/or confirmed CJD requires special handling due to...
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Those of us that gross are often called the eyes of the pathologists. This is because of how important it is to look carefully at all steps of the grossing process, and – believe it or not – some of the most important steps happen even before a specimen is grossed. Let’s take a close “look!” ...
One of the biggest challenges in any lab is compliance, and with the amount of regulations and rules we have to follow to ensure safe patient testing and keep our lab open, it can be overwhelming. One of the biggest hurdles is proficiency testing (PT). In the world of histology, these...
"Quality is a choice. Choose to make it better.” – Ron Kaufman You make a million choices every day. The choice to hit the snooze button just one…more…time. The choice to eat a healthy meal or succumb to that all too accessible fast food option that is so heavily flaunted in front of you....
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We, histology laboratory professionals, through various actions behind histology—procedures and stains, apply a problem-solving mentality in the lab every day. Our problem-solving strategies are important, but not often mentioned in the textbooks we studied. Broken Slides One day a...
We, histology Laboratory professionals, have our own language that we use when we meet that no one knows how to communicate with except us. Our communication is simple and closely tightened by the chain known as NSH. That is why we feel a sense of humor when someone in the group posts “ things...
Epoxy resins are used in conventional transmission electron microscopy and high-resolution light microscopy applications such as osmium-paraphenylenediamine staining of myelinated axons in neuronal tissue on 1-um semithin sections. The ‘pot-life’ of most epoxy-based resins (e.g. EPON812 and...
In the Beginning…. The 1980s ushered in a persistent histologist shortage that created the foundation for the travel histology industry. The ease, in finding a job during this shortage allowed histologists from the northern states to spend their winters in warmer climates. Hospitals and...
What is Root Cause Analysis? I have been working in the histology profession for more than 40 years and it took me many of those years to fully understand and learn how to perform an effective Root Cause Analysis (RCA). RCA is a method of problem solving used for identifying the cause of...
The Joint Commission established National Patient Safety Goals in 2002 to address patient safety in healthcare. One of these goals is to improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers. SBAR ( S ituation, B ackground, A ssessment, R ecommendation) was recommended by The Joint...