[talaxandra]

The US measures in mg/dL; metric countries like Canada and Australia (among other) use mmol/L, and HbA1C is universal.
Patience's 1.9mmol/L converts to 34 mg/dL; my (not personal!) all time low of 0.8 mmol/L is 14 mg/dL.
These are both convincingly beaten by the 1, 2 and 5mg/dL reading mentioned by US nurses above - they all equal a metric reading of 0.0mmol/L!

[cwinlv]

The patient, a 23 yr old type-1 diabetic for more than 20 yrs, received an inadvertently high dose of insulin when the night shift nurse "primed" the insulin pump while the catheter was in place (he later said he was not familiar with a pump... no kidding!). The patient experienced a hypoglycemic seizure three hours later. The accucheck received an error message and was unable to read the glucose level. A serum sample tubed off to the lab was later reported as "less than 5."

This incident happened to my daughter while she was in the hospital recovering from a cardiac arrest and emergency thoracotomy during the birth of my granddaughter.

[DolphinRN84]

I didn't have this patient, but a patient on my floor had a BS of 13 last week. That's the lowest I've seen so far.

[PANurseRN1]

Originally Posted by P_RN

I saw a documented and witnessed BS of 1.

Show off! :lol

How can you beat that?

[multicollinearity]

Wow. The lowest I've ever gone was 30, exactly. I was awake and alert, but I didn't feel quite right.

[clee1]

The lowest I've ever seen was a 22 - my type 2 non-compliant grandfather.

He was conscious, but not terribly lucid. 8oz of Sprite (he had no OJ in the house) and an EMS ride to the hospital took care of that incident, but he died two weeks later in the hospital, at 86 y/o, from complications of uncontrolled DM.

[Achoo!]

I'm still a student, and I don't have a low, but one patient I cared for was found unconscous at home and had a glucose of 1187. He ended up with a lot of complications from the DKA.

[RNSacht]

Had a 23 bs last week, NPO patient with an NG tube going to hospice next day. Ran to get that dextrose faster than you can imagine, Rechecked 15 min later was up to 202. Thank god for IV dextrose!!!!!!!!!!!

[Otessa]

22 and we re-tested and it was 23

[nrsang97]

BS was 16 and retested and was 16 again. 2 amps of D50, can't remember what it came up to . Same pt was admitted with HHNK and had 1500 bs on admit.