Hi,
    Actually we use a scanner to digitize each requisition, so there is no need
to clean it after each use also if a copier is used only the plate glass on the
copier and the key pad would be contaminated the rest would be clean
Amos Brooks

Becky Scholes wrote:

> So,,,,,do you decontaminate the copier each time you use it???
>
> >From: Amos Brooks <atbrooks@snet.net>
> >To: Sharon M Tipton <Histochick@fmtc.com>
> >CC: Einfalt Ginny <GEINFALT@virtua.org>, 'histonetpathologyswmededu'
> ><histonet@pathology.swmed.edu>
> >Subject: Re: Clean Areas
> >Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 20:51:27 -0400
> >
> >Hi,
> >     Doesn't recieving the requisitions in a biohazard bag make the
> >originals
> >potentially contaminated? The originals should be sent to the grossing room
> >and
> >the copies to the transcription for that area to be considered clean.
> >Amos Brooks
> >
> >Sharon M Tipton wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Ginny,
> > > We give a Xerox copy of the specimen requisition to the grossing
> > > pathologist, making sure that all of  the pertinent information is clear
> >and
> > > readable. This has helped us to keep the originals "clean" as possible
> >to
> > > send to transcription, plus we don't have to worry about how messy the
> >doc
> > > is! We just toss these copies away after grossing is done. (And some of
> >them
> > > end up really GROSS!!!) We are a small hospital lab, so this is do-able
> >for
> > > us. The down side is that we kill too many trees in the process (
> >painful
> > > for me -I was a horticulturist in a previous career ).-Shar
> > >
> > > Sharon M. Tipton, HT(ASCP)
> > > Holy Rosary Medical Center
> > > Ontario, Oregon
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Einfalt Ginny <GEINFALT@virtua.org>
> > > To: 'histonetpathologyswmededu' <histonet@pathology.swmed.edu>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 4:04 PM
> > > Subject: Clean Areas
> > >
> > > > Dear Histonetters,
> > > > We have an ongoing issue with the pathology office about whether or
> >not
> > > the
> > > > office where the girls transcribe should be considered a clean area.
> > > Since
> > > > all of the computer requisitions are single pages, they are circulated
> > > from
> > > > the pocket of the biohazard bag the specimen arrives in, to the
> > > accessioning
> > > > table, to the grossing area, handled by the PA and passed on to the
> > > > transcriptionists who believe that they work in a "clean area".  What
> >are
> > > > the protocols in other pathology offices?
> > > >
> > > > Ginny Einfalt
> > > > Virtua West Jersey Hospital
> > > > geinfalt@virtua.org
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
> >
>
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