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Educational content about the well-defined, optimized process to ensure a pathology lab’s efficient, safe, and consistent handling of histology tissue samples.
The Benefit Of Multiple Tissue Processing Runs
Ashley Troutman, MBA, HT(ASCP), QIHC, CLSSBB.
Tissue processing is one of the most critical elements of obtaining quality and timely results in the histology process. Ultimately, to obtain the desired quality processed tissue samples, separate processing runs may be required appropriate to tissue size.
Reducing Batch Size to Improve Slide Turnaround Time
David Newell, MBA, HT(ASCP)CM
QEH is most interested in having slides assigned to their Pathologists earlier in the day.
Optimizing Automated Tissue Processing Efficiency To Reduce Cost
Ashley Troutman, MBA, HT(ASCP), QIHC, CLSSBB.
Cost-effectively managing a large pathology lab while maintaining the high level of quality required by a world-renowned medical center is a difficult balancing act for any hospital administration.
What is Green?
April Schrank-Hacker, Ed.D., MSOD, CG(ASCP)CM
Lawrence Patton, BS Biology, HT, Advanced Technical Lead at Leica Biosystems
Practicing sustainability in the histology laboratory shapes paradigms in four fundamental ways: minimizing our impact on the Earth, maintaining our well-being, decreasing the cost of waste management in the laboratory, and discovering new processes affecting our daily work.
Introduction to Lean Principles in the Cytogenomics Laboratory
April Schrank-Hacker, Ed.D., MSOD, CG(ASCP)CM
By using continuous quality improvement, we can build consistency through standardization that can reduce errors and provide reproducible results. Many laboratories have questions about Lean practices and different ways it can be impactful to cytogenomics.
Cytogenetics: A Blueprint for Building Quality, Interconnected and Efficient Laboratory Process
April Schrank-Hacker, Ed.D., MSOD, CG(ASCP)CM
April Schrank-Hacker will offer a holistic look at the Cytogenetics laboratory workflow to increase confidence and accuracy in the final diagnosis. She will discuss new perspectives on creating optimized, safe and reliable workflows that your lab could...
Stereotaxic Accuracy
Charles W. Scouten, Ph.D.
The instrument for moving a probe to a given coordinate in space – inside the brain – is a stereotaxic instrument.
Immunohistochemical Analysis of Selected Head and Neck Neoplasms
Steve A. Kargas, MD, PhD, MBA, FACHE
The rapid expansion of the field of Head and Neck Pathology encompasses a wide variety of lesions, inflammatory conditions, neoplasms, and infections which requires a variety of tools for rapid and accurate diagnosis.
From Diagnosis to Treatment - Part 3 of 4, Diagnosis of Breast Cancer with H&E and Immunohistochemistry Stains
Thomas Haas, D.O., FCAP
In the case of Breast Cancer, the patient’s cancer is usually detected by a mammogram or palpitation of an experienced Physician.