RE: PARAFFIN BLOCKS

From:Gary Gill

What does "we followed the same regs as the other hospitals in the city" mean?  What regs -- specifically?  How do you know?  And do you mean retaining paraffin blocks of tissue from children until the children reached the age of majority?  And if so, so what if current guidelines are silent on the issue?  If authoritative regulations and professional guidelines don't require certain practices, why do them?  Adds cost, not value.
 
Gary Gill
-----Original Message-----
From: Noreen Gilman [mailto:ngilman@nbhd.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 4:03 PM
To: HornHV@archildrens.org; CLocallo@childrensmemorial.org; garygill@dcla.com; histonet@pathology.swmed.edu; SohrabB@wmmcpo.ah.org
Subject: RE: PARAFFIN BLOCKS

In the late 1970's I worked at a children's hospital and we followed the same regs as the other hospitals in the city.
N
 
Noreen Gilman, BS,HT(ASCP)QIHC
Histopathology Supervisor
Broward General Medical Center
Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33316
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>>> Gary Gill <garygill@dcla.com> 02/20/03 03:51PM >>>
Cathy:

The checklist says nothing about retaining paraffin blocks "xcept when you
are dealing with children, their tissue is to be saved until they have
reached majority I believe."

Gary Gill

-----Original Message-----
From: Locallo, Catherine [
mailto:CLocallo@childrensmemorial.org]
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 7:52 AM
To: 'Gary Gill'; 'Horn, Hazel V'; 'Behnaz Sohrab';
histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: RE: PARAFFIN BLOCKS


Gary.

You can find the CAP checklist on their web site.  The address is
www.CAP.org. Look under laboratory inspection and checklist Section 8
Anatomic Pathology.

Cathy Locallo
Director Anatomic Pathology
Children's Memorial Hospital

> -----Original Message-----
> From:    Gary Gill [SMTP:garygill@dcla.com]
> Sent:    Wednesday, February 19, 2003 4:24 PM
> To:    'Horn, Hazel V'; Gary Gill; 'Behnaz Sohrab';
> histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject:    RE: PARAFFIN BLOCKS
>
> Hazel:
>
> Can you provide a link to a website that has such documentation?
>
> Gary Gill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Horn, Hazel V [
mailto:HornHV@archildrens.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 4:59 PM
> To: 'Gary Gill'; 'Behnaz Sohrab'; histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: RE: PARAFFIN BLOCKS
>
>
> Except when you are dealing with children, their tissue is to be saved
> until
> they have reached majority I believe.  
> Hazel  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:    Gary Gill [SMTP:garygill@dcla.com]
> > Sent:    Wednesday, February 19, 2003 3:08 PM
> > To:    'Behnaz Sohrab'; histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> > Subject:    RE: PARAFFIN BLOCKS
> >
> > General Laboratory
> > Accession log records 2 years
> > Maintenance/instrument maintenance 2 years
> > Quality control records 2 years
> > 
> > Cytology
> > Slides (negative-unsatisfactory) 5 years
> > Slides (suspicious-positive) 5 years
> > Fine needle aspiration slides 10 years
> > Reports 10 years
> > 
> > Surgical Pathology (including bone marrows)
> > Wet tissue 2 weeks after final report
> > Paraffin blocks 10 years
> > Slides 10 years
> > Reports 10 years
> > 
> > See CAP's Retention of Laboratory Records and Materials:
> > <
ftp://ftp.cap.org/lapdocs/retention_1101.pdf>
> > 
> > Gary Gill
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Behnaz Sohrab [
mailto:SohrabB@wmmcpo.ah.org]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 3:25 PM
> > To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> > Subject: PARAFFIN BLOCKS
> >
> >
> > We are having cap inspection in June. My pathologists are telling me
> that
> > CAP is requiring to keep the paraffin blocks for 10 years ?  Our policy
> at
> > present time is : Paraffin blocks 5 years
> >                               Slides 10 years
> >  I would love to hear from you all !  Thanks


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