Try Microwave Processing with a 15 minute schedule(total time).  Your techs
and Pathologists will love you for it!
Denise Hardy
ARUP


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> From: 	lastandfirst@webtv.net[SMTP:lastandfirst@webtv.net]
> Sent: 	Thursday, March 25, 1999 9:41 PM
> To: 	histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
> Subject: 	processing GI biopsies
> 
> We process our GI biopsies on a short cycle using a VIP tissue
> processor.  Our results are not consistent.  Somedays we experience a
> lot of microchatter and other days we do not.  We receive specimens from
> out-patient locations in addition to our in-house surgical specimens.
> 
> Any helpful hints will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Kathleen Hollenbeck
> Histology Supervisor
> Sunrise Hospital
> Las Vegas, NV
> 
>