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Traceability in Pathology Labs: Ensuring Specimen Safety and Workflow Efficiency

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Error-free traceability is crucial in order to ensure specimen safety and optimize operations in each pathology lab. For accurate diagnoses, it is essential to properly track the biospecimen’s data throughout all its journey, starting from collection till the final analysis. Unfortunately, many laboratories face challenges, as some steps are not adequately monitored or traceability is manually handled, increasing the risks of data loss, mismatches or errors. How to efficiently track and document specimens in the laboratory? Watch this on-demand webinar and discover effective solutions to...

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Grossing Stations: a Practical Guide to choose your Next One

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Grossing is one of the pillar steps in the specimen preparation toward pathology diagnosis. Over time, traditional grossing stations have seen significant enhancements, leading to a wide variety of models currently available on the market. What’s the secret to selecting the right grossing station? What are the critical factors that should guide you in the decision-making process? During the webinar session, our Application Specialists will discuss the core needs and challenges that operators face in today’s grossing procedures and will provide participants with practical hints and...

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Meet us at USCAP 2024 in Baltimore

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Meet us in Baltimore USCAP 113th Annual Meeting will take place from 23 to 28 March 2024 at the Baltimore Convention Center – Baltimore, MD. Networking, learning, and striving for success, we’ll be there to take you on a journey of innovation, exploration and education. Meet us there! We all look forward to meeting you at our booth to show our brand-new products and innovations for pathology and histology. ???? 23 – 28 March 2024 ???? Baltimore Convention Center – Halls D, E, F, G & Swing – Baltimore, MD ➡️ Milestone Booth #327 Don’t miss these days of personal contacts and...

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Meet us at EORNA 2024

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Meet us in Valencia EORNA 11th biennial congress of European Perioperative Nurses Association will take place from 16 to 18 May 2024 in Valencia, Spain. The theme of the congress, Lights of Hope, reflects hope for the better, light at the end of the tunnel. Let’s hope the light shines brightly in Valencia 2024. Meet us there! We all look forward to meeting you at our booth to show our brand-new products and innovations for nurses and OR staff. ???? 16 – 18 May 2024 ???? Palacio de Congresos, Valencia, Spain ➡️ Milestone Booth #33 Don’t miss these days of personal contacts and...

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How to Enhance the Quality of your Frozen Sections

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Background The frozen sections procedure stands as one of the most challenging tasks within an anatomical laboratory, owing to its pivotal role in surgical decision-making. The diagnosis derived from a frozen section offers vital insights to surgeons, guiding them in determining the course of the operation. These examinations allow for the checking of resection margins, effectively reducing the necessity for a second surgery, which entails significant costs and heightens patient anxiety. However, this method has some limitations. Primarily, the challenge lies in operating under low...

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How to Eliminate Operators’ Exposure to Formalin in the Operating Theatres

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Background Formalin is now officially classified as a Class 1 carcinogenic substance for humans by the EU. Employers have the duty to minimize operator’s exposure to this substance by reducing or substituting it with non or less dangerous alternatives. If substitution isn’t possible, employers are asked to limit operator exposure with the use of closed system and monitor formalin’s effects on the user’s body. In response to this concern, Milestone has developed UltraSAFE, an automatic formalin dispending system for buckets in the OR, which supports the concept of zero formalin exposure...

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3 Key Factors that impact on your Tissue Processing Workflow

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In today’s pathology landscape, there’s a concerted effort towards enhancing laboratory workflows to streamline operations, reduce costs, enhance efficiency, and prioritize result quality and patient safety. But what exactly are the pivotal elements that drive these improvements? During the webinar session, our Application Specialist highlights the primary challenges of tissue processing, with a special focus on samples management, reagents exchange and traceability. Through live streaming directly from our new Milestone laboratory, you will learn best practices and strategies...

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