Don't know how this guy lived

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Specializes in ED/ICU/EMS.

Just have to share this one, it's too crazy to not... 20yo male college student arrived in police custody by police cruiser, local campus PD on a domestic violence charge. Moderately disoriented to place/situation and intermittently unconscious at times, but easily rousable and obeyed commands for the most part. Some obvious evidence of IVDU, ended up finding a fairly impressive site infection.

BP 66/palp manual, HR 133, lactic 2.9mmol/l... UA returned with positive for benzo, opiate, etoh. Labs came back... ETOH 0.73, blood glucose 16mg/dl... extended tox panel showed +ketamine too... somehow this guy was conscious enough to do a domestic battery

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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.

This blows my mind.  If he hadn't been picked up by the cops he would have been dead by morning.

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