For a test drive it sounds like a lot of additional
work.  I hope your using tests cases instead of actual
patient cases.  This sounds like a huge delay for
H&E's to be read out.  Haven't your pathologists
complained.

Akemi
--- Laurie Popp  wrote:

> actually we are "test driving" as you will the new
> Ventana Symphony 
> stainer and have not had a day where we have not
> gotten a call from 
> Tuscon stating that there is a problem with the
> stainer since it passed 
> validation.  The nice thing is tech support usually
> calls us right as 
> the computer is starting to error.  The bad thing is
> you have to go back 
> and start your H&E's over from the beginning...
> destaining and 
> restaining since there is no resume as of yet.
> 
> Laurie Popp HT (ASCP)
> Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
> 
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Akemi Allison-Tacha, BS, HT(ASCP)HTL
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PhenoPath laboratories
551 North 34th Street, Suite 100 
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