Introduction
Safety Precautions:
- Slips, Trips, and Falls
- Personal Injury
- Weather
- Pinch Points
Personal Protective Equipment Required
- Boots
- Eye Protection
- Gloves
- Ear Plugs
- Hard Hat
Tools
Parts
No parts specified.
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Potential Hazards Include:
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Slips, Trips, and Falls
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Personal Injury
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Weather
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Pinch Points
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Only use forceps, knife carrier or suction tool to handle blade - not your fingers
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To avoid chance of injury
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Confirm that microtome is stil locked before placing blade into knife carrier
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So that microtome doesn't move accidentally, risking injury
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Immediately after inserting blade into microtome
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Skim water bath surface with "kimwipe"
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Water surface must be cleaned before each block to prevent carryover & debris pickup
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To generate labels (single specimen processing)
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Select blocks in numerical sequence
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To simplify required sequencing when filing blocks
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For instruction on quantity and type of slides required
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Visually verify matching accession & specimen identifiers on the block and the printed labels
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to detect errors that Intellipath may make (historically this has occurred)
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Printed side of block to the left
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To standardize orientation of blocks for cutting
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Align block to blade
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Refer to this document
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To avoid tissue at end of slide not covered by coverslip
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To avoid tissue pick up on back of slide
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To avoid washed off tissue
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For hard tissue use charged slides or albumin
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Sections should be centrally placed on slide
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Remove unwanted sections with probe or forceps
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