Benefits

Proven advantages of the Tispa Medical technology

• Totally free of xylene, or xylene replacing organic solvents.
  This is the first tissue processor that does not use any organic solvent as an intermediate between the dehydration and the paraffination. This results in a healthier working environment, absence of regulatory environmental issues, easier construction in new-built or remodelled laboratories.
• Faster results.
  The process time is much shorter, in the order of 2.5 hours versus the whole night traditionally. There is up to a full day gain in availability of the diagnosis results.
• Even workflow.
  The traditional method causes a peak load in the morning since the processing is done overnight. Because of the shorter process time and a modular system of smaller reactors, the workload with our system is more evenly spread over the day. This results in more efficient staffing and a reduction of risks of mistakes.
  It also offers more flexibility for the pathologist to allocate his time for diagnosis in combination with other tasks.
• Processing non-fixated specimens.
  Because incoming tissues can be processed on receipt, the fixation is step is not necessary. For certain types of diagnosis (cell nuclei) or in case of rush requests, this is an important feature.
• Processing fatty (e.g. breast) tissues.
  These specimens are cumbersome in the traditional process, where the CO₂ process yields excellent results in the same short process time.
• More freedom in specimen size.
  Because of the efficiency of the process, much larger specimens can be paraffinated than using the traditional method. This opens new diagnosis or research possibilities.
• Apparatus does not have to be cleaned between cycles.
  Cleaning the equipment is traditionally a time consuming activity. Since the warm supercritical CO₂ effectively removes the unused paraffin, there is no cleaning between cycles.
• Unchanged diagnosis.
  The diagnostic slides have the same appearance as traditionally processed material.
  Since the actual process is not changed, but just the displacement step using xylene, the resulting coupe is equal to the traditional one. Alternative methods using microwave technology and/or acetone do result in a modified morphology and hence in different assessment of the coupe.